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'The Wings of the Spirit': Exploring Feminine Symbolism in Early Pneumatology: A Reassessment of a Key Metaphor in the Spiritual Teachings of the 'Mac

'The Wings of the Spirit': Exploring Feminine Symbolism in Early Pneumatology: A Reassessment of a Key Metaphor in the Spiritual Teachings of the 'Mac

Hopkins, J. M.

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Series: Eswtr Studies in Religion, Book 1

PhilosophyReligion General

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ISBN10: 9042941138
ISBN13: 9789042941137
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Feb 19 2020
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.11 Depth: 9.31
Language: English
The book explores the rich symbolism of the Holy Spirit as a mother birdwith hovering wings within early Syriac sacramental liturgies, proto-monastic rites of initiation, hymnody and teaching on prayer andspiritual states of inspiration and contemplation. The author tracesthese influences into the Greek writings of the Fourth CenturyMesopotamian ascetic teacher and writer of the 'Macarian Homilies'.Macarian pneumatology was known to have influenced the Cappadocianbrothers, Basil and Gregory, in the period leading up to the addition ofthe clause on the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed. By demonstrating acultural and religious dialogue between the Cappadocians and Macarianand Syriac teaching on the Holy Spirit, Julie Hopkins challenges thecurrent scholarship which claims that the Cappadocian appropriation ofthe wings of the Spirit metaphor derived from the Platonic wings ofthe soul. In her study, the agency and functions of the Syriac feminineHoly Spirit were appropriated by Gregory of Nyssa in his mysticalwritings as a powerful verbal ikon, even though the gender was lost intranslation.

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