Angelomorphic pneumatology; Clement of Alexandria and other early Christian witnesses.

9789004174146

Angelomorphic pneumatology; Clement of Alexandria and other early Christian witnesses.

Bucur, Bogdan Gabriel.

BRILL

2009

232 pages

$147.00

Hardcover

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae; v.95

BT119

Bucur (theology, Duquesne U., Pittsburgh, US) begins with certain writings of Clement (c.150-215), but uses them primarily as an entry point into the larger early Christian tradition of using angelic imagery in discourse about the Holy Spirit, a practice he calls angelomorphic pneumatology. He looks at Clement's writing about it and its theological framework; previous treatments in the Book of Revelation, the Shepherd of Hermas, and Justin Martyr; and Aphrahat the Persian sage as an example of evidence from the east. A central argument is that early Christians did not just make this up, but grafted the Holy Spirit onto a broad and long tradition of angelic imagery.

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