Section 07: Pneumatology and Late Works

Athanasius’ defense of the Holy Spirit’s divinity against the Tropici in the Letters to Serapion, and the reconciling statesmanship of the Tomus ad Antiochenos (362) that prepared the Cappadocian settlement.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox (Church Father)

Section Contents

• letters-to-serapion.md — The first sustained defense of the Spirit’s divinity: the Tropici’s exegesis answered, the deification argument, the road to Constantinople 381
• tomus-ad-antiochenos.md — The Council of Alexandria 362 and its tomus: one-hypostasis and three-hypostases language reconciled, the Antiochene schism addressed

See Also

• Letters to Serapion ↔ Pneumatology — the doctrine these letters seeded
• Ousia and hypostasis in Basil — where the tomus’ diplomacy led
• Section 02: Arian Controversy

References

• Athanasius. Works on the Spirit (Letters to Serapion). Trans. DelCogliano, Radde-Gallwitz, Ayres. PPS 43. Yonkers, NY: SVS Press, 2011.
• Tomus ad Antiochenos, in NPNF II/4.
• Anatolios, Khaled. Athanasius. Early Church Fathers. London: Routledge, 2004.