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De Spiritu Sancto (On the Holy Spirit)
Argues for the Spirit's full divinity and worship alongside Father and Son in trinitarian faith.
Basil the Greatc. AD 374-3754th century
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Overview
- Category
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Genre
- Treatise
- Tradition
- Eastern
- Region
- Cappadocia
- Original language
- Greek
- Date certainty
- Range
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Manuscript context
This text is represented here through direct Greek witness material associated with Basil the Great and its circulation in Cappadocia.
Themes
Controversies
- Pneumatomachian controversy
- Arian controversy
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Primary translation
www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
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web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Original language witnesses
Witness status: Direct witness
Extracted OCR witness from Patrologia Graeca volume 32, bounded to De Spiritu Sancto.
Open normalized witness textPatrologia Graeca vol. 32 (De Spiritu Sancto section)
License: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Documenta Catholica Omnia (MGR PDF extracted text)
License: Subject to source site terms and conditions