Breath

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Breath of the Holy Spirit (St. Agricol Provence, ca.1450)

Breath ( lat. Spiratio ) is a theological term that denotes the emergence of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son .

Explanation

The breath is related to the terms procreation and creation and describes a part of the doctrine of the Trinity . It explains the Hervorgehung of the Holy Spirit from the two divine persons father and son through a course of events which is called spiration. God the Father, the only God , is uncreated and has no origins. The Father begets the Son for ever . Because of eternal procreation , the Son possesses all the qualities that the Father possesses, with the exception of lack of origin and fatherhood. Thus, he has the Father also Hauchungskraft (vis spirativa), with whom he the Holy Spirit to breathe.

The Orthodox Churches teach that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son. The eternal begetting of the Son by the Father is, however, viewed as a necessary and not a willed or voluntary act of God. That is, the procreation process is inherent in the nature and essence of God.

Classification in the history of theology

The term breath is associated with the Filioque dispute. Filioque is Latin and means and the son . The addition was first introduced in Spain at the Fourth Council of Toledo in 633 to distinguish itself from Arianism , which took the view that Jesus Christ was less than God the Father. The difference in the conception of the Filioque (breath only from the father or also from the son) only became church-dividing between the Eastern and Western Churches at the Fourth Council of Constantinople 869-870.

literature

• Basil of Caesarea : Peri tou Hagiou Pneumatos; Fontes Christiani Vol. 12: Basil of Caesarea: De Spititus Sanctu , About the Holy Spirit. Greek - German. Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3-451-22132-2 ; [1] (English)
• Ludwig Ott , Grundriss der Katholische Dogmatik , 11th edition with literature supplements, nova & vetera, 2005, ISBN 3-936741-25-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Ott , Grundriss der Katholische Dogmatik , 11th edition with literature supplements, 2005, p. 111ff.

Web links

• Brief overview of the religious disputes of Christian antiquity (PDF file; 60 kB)
• Scheme for the doctrine of the Trinity (PDF file; 88 kB)
• Augustine: Fifteen Books on the Trinity (De Trinitate); Book 15, Chapter 27: Difference between procreation and breath