Angelomorphic Pneumatology: Clement of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses. By Bogdan Gabriel Bucur
Seldom do so few words make such a long title. An angelomorphic being is defined as one who cannot be reduced to an angel but resembles one in status and characteristics. ‘Pneumatology’ signifies here a theory of the action of God through spiritual instruments which have not yet coalesced into a dis...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 779-780 |
| Review of: | Angelomorphic pneumatology (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2009) (Edwards, Mark)
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| Summary: | Seldom do so few words make such a long title. An angelomorphic being is defined as one who cannot be reduced to an angel but resembles one in status and characteristics. ‘Pneumatology’ signifies here a theory of the action of God through spiritual instruments which have not yet coalesced into a discrete hypostasis. The principal subject of inquiry is Clement of Alexandria, who identifies the seven spirits of God at Isa. 11:2 with the seven eyes of the Lord in Zechariah and Revelation, rebaptizing them as the seven ‘first-born princes of the angels’ and the seven ‘first-created’ (prôtoktistoi) who do the bidding of the Word. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq084 |