Here’s a short review of Boyarin’s 2004 book. The review notes the two powers theology and Boyarin’s use of it in this work.
Archive for April, 2009
Early Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Fifty-two pages of chunky pneumatological goodness, by Michel Rene Barnes. The paper is the first chapter in a monograph on the theology of the Holy Spirit until the time of Tertullian and Origen. Its thesis is that early Christian pneumatology continues and develops Jewish pneumatology.
The Holy Spirit and the Angel
Below are two interesting articles that relate some familiar Binitarian categories and terminology to the Holy Spirit. Naturally, there is much fodder here for triangulating (pardon the pun) to a tri-nitarian godhead, perhaps even in the Hebrew Bible. The author of both articles is Bogdan G. Bucur:
The Son of God and the Angelomorphic Holy Spirit: A Rereading of the Shepherd’s Christology (the article deals with the Shepherd of Hermas, a writing included in that body of ancient Christian literature known as the Apostolic Fathers)
The Angelic Spirit in Early Christianity: Justin, the Martyr and Philosopher
The Name in Ante-Nicene Christology
This is the title of very good article by Charles Gieschen that I recently found on the web. I have mentioned Charles Gieschen before as the author of a schoalrly work on Angelomorphic Christology. That book is extraordinarily expensive, but this article covers a lot of the same ground with respect to the Name.
