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Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great (Hardcover, New)
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Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great
presents three interconnected arguments. The first argument
concerns scholarly readings of antiquity: there are developments in
5th and 6th century Latin pneumatology which we have overlooked.
Theologians like John Cassian and Gregory the Great were engaged in
a significant discussion of how the Holy Spirit works within
Christian ascetics to reform their inner lives. Other theologians,
like Leo the Great, participate to a lesser extent in a similar
project. They applied pneumatology to theological anthropology.
Thomas L. Humphries, Jr. labels that development "ascetic
pneumatology," and beings to track some of the late antique schools
of thought about the Holy Spirit. The second argument concerns the
reception of Augustine in the two centuries immediately after his
death: different people read Augustine differently. Augustine's
theology was known and understood to varying degrees in various
regions. Humphries demonstrates significant engagements with
Augustine's theology as it was relevant to Pelagianism (evidenced
in Prosper of Aquitaine), as it was relevant to Gallic Arians
(evidenced with the Lerinian theologians), and as it was relevant
to African Arians and certain questions posed of Nestorianism
(evidenced with Fulgentius of Ruspe). Instead of attempting to rank
various theologians as better and worse "Augustinians," Humphries
argues that there were different kinds of "Augustinianisms" even in
the years immediately after Augustine. The third argument concerns
Gregory the Great and his sources. Once we see that ascetic
pneumatology was a strain of thought in this era and see that there
are different kinds of Augustinianisms, we can see that Gregory
depends on both Augustine and Cassian. In the closing chapters,
Humphries argues that Gregory uses Cassian's ascetic pneumatology,
and this allows Gregory's synthesis of Cassian and Augustine to
stand in greater relief than it has before. The study begins with
Cassian, ends with Gregory, and is attentive to Augustine
throughout.
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