The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism The Holy Spirit
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Book
Authors
Category
Holy Spirit
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Publication Year
1960
Publisher
Volume
18
Pages
138
Description
What is this spirit, this breath of God, who is the Deity and yet is a separate person in the Trinity of the Godhead?
The author has taken all the extant historical and theological material available and from this has extracted the essence of the doctrine in its historical development up to the present. He has presented this in a wonderfully popular and lucid style which will draw the praise and thanks of all readers.
Historically, the author shows how the eternal fact of the Holy Spirit began to appear in pre-Judaic times. He goes on to show that the Ruah (breath) of God was a prevision of the concept developed in the Old Testament - the wind that lowered the deluge after the great flood, the wind that split the Red Sea for the Israelites, etc. The New Testament completely conceptualizes the Holy Spirit as He comes to the Virgin Mary so that she may become the Mother of God.
The last part of the volume discusses how far man may know the Holy Spirit and His mission to us, on which the author says: "It is thus that the Breath of God which hovered over the waters long ago will complete His work. In one single Breath, in one single respiration, God who is all in all, will silently proclaim in the hearts of all men the Love who is God."
Antonin Marcel Henry, OP, is a priest of the Dominican Order. He was born in Paris in 1911. He has university degrees in science, engineering and theology. For eighteen years he was head of the magazine La Vie Spirituelle and is now directing a second one, Parole et Mission. He is the author of La Messe du Roi Saint-Louis, Breviare des Fidele, Initiation Theologique, Pretre d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui, Breviaire de Poche, Morale et Vie Conjugale, and Esquisse d'une Theologie de la Mission. He is now a resident of Paris.
J Lundberg and M Bell translated The Holy Spirit from the French.
This is Volume 18 under section II, The Basic Truths.
Taken from the inside flaps.
The author has taken all the extant historical and theological material available and from this has extracted the essence of the doctrine in its historical development up to the present. He has presented this in a wonderfully popular and lucid style which will draw the praise and thanks of all readers.
Historically, the author shows how the eternal fact of the Holy Spirit began to appear in pre-Judaic times. He goes on to show that the Ruah (breath) of God was a prevision of the concept developed in the Old Testament - the wind that lowered the deluge after the great flood, the wind that split the Red Sea for the Israelites, etc. The New Testament completely conceptualizes the Holy Spirit as He comes to the Virgin Mary so that she may become the Mother of God.
The last part of the volume discusses how far man may know the Holy Spirit and His mission to us, on which the author says: "It is thus that the Breath of God which hovered over the waters long ago will complete His work. In one single Breath, in one single respiration, God who is all in all, will silently proclaim in the hearts of all men the Love who is God."
Antonin Marcel Henry, OP, is a priest of the Dominican Order. He was born in Paris in 1911. He has university degrees in science, engineering and theology. For eighteen years he was head of the magazine La Vie Spirituelle and is now directing a second one, Parole et Mission. He is the author of La Messe du Roi Saint-Louis, Breviare des Fidele, Initiation Theologique, Pretre d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui, Breviaire de Poche, Morale et Vie Conjugale, and Esquisse d'une Theologie de la Mission. He is now a resident of Paris.
J Lundberg and M Bell translated The Holy Spirit from the French.
This is Volume 18 under section II, The Basic Truths.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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