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The Church Fathers · 375
On the Holy Spirit
De Spiritu Sancto
Basil the Great · c. 330–379
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What it is
An argument built on prepositions: Basil defends worshipping the Spirit with the Father and the Son, appealing to the church's unwritten liturgical practice as evidence of what it has always believed.
Why it lasted
The work that carried the divinity of the Spirit into the Nicene Creed's final form in 381, completing the doctrine of the Trinity.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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