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    Ontological Ideas About the Holy Spirit in the Early Church
    Ontological Ideas About the Holy Spirit in the Early Church
    Ontological Ideas About the Holy Spirit in the Early Church
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    Ontological Ideas About the Holy Spirit in the Early Church

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    Ontological Ideas About the Holy Spirit in the Early Church by Robert Alan King is a booklet with over 4,600 words. This book will focus on the ontological ideas about the Spirit that we can identify among five of the most prominent early church fathers following the apostolic age, including Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Origen. King discusses how they agree on many basic theological aspects about God in three persons, but that they also maintain some differences, including the relationship of the Spirit within the Trinity. Though the focus is primarily on their ontological dimensions of the Spirit in the Godhead, this requires some exploration into the economic activities of the Spirit in order to express and describe his existence as a distinct person. It also demands some discussion regarding the Father and the Son in order to further define the Spirit. Robert Alan King is an ordained minister through Calvary Chapel.

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    PublisherRobert Alan King
    Release dateMay 8, 2016
    ISBN9781311311832
    Ontological Ideas About the Holy Spirit in the Early Church
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    Robert Alan King

    Robert Alan King is an ordained minister through Calvary Chapel who has written numerous theological and inspirational articles for a variety of publications, including Advocate, The Church Herald & Holiness Banner, Companions, The Priest, Proclaim, Pulpit Helps, Vista, War Cry, and Decision Magazine. He also has authored numerous printed books and dozens of eBooks.King has a Master of Arts Degree Sum Cum Laude in Psychology from Touro University Worldwide with an 4.0 institutional GPA, a Bachelor of Science Degree Cum Laude in Bible and Theology from Lee University with an 4.0 institutional GPA, and an Associate of Arts Degree with an emphasis in Science from Coastline Community College. He has a total of at least 256 units of education from universities, seminaries or colleges. This includes at least 130 units of Bible and theology related classes from Lee University, Calvary Chapel Bible College, and Chafer Theological Seminary.

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      Ontological Ideas About the Holy Spirit in the Early Church - Robert Alan King

      Ontological Ideas About the Holy Spirit in the Early Church

      By Robert Alan King

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      Published by King & Associates, Casa Grande, Arizona.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Ignatius (AD 110)

      Justin Martyr (AD 150-160)

      Irenaeus (AD 175-185)

      Tertullian (AD 197-220)

      Origen (AD 203-250)

      Conclusion

      Footnotes

      Bibliography

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      Introduction

      Though orthodox theology asserts that the Holy Spirit is one of the three co-equal personal distinctions within the Trinity, efforts to define the Holy Spirit and his relationship to the Father and the Son led to some ideas among many of the early church fathers that were not necessarily what we would consider orthodox. This book will focus on the ontological ideas about the Spirit that we can identify among many of the most prominent early church fathers following the apostolic age, beginning first with Ignatius and ending with Origen. It will show that the general consensus of opinion among them held that the Holy Spirit was in fact a distinct person united with two other distinct persons as one God in nature and substance.

      Though our focus is primarily on the ontological dimensions of the Spirit in the Godhead, this will require some exploration into the economic activities of the Spirit in order to express and define his existence as a distinct person. It will also demand some discussion regarding the Father and the Son in order to further define the Spirit. We will now examine the primary ontological ideas about the Spirit in Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Origen. We will find that though they agreed on many basic theological aspects about God in three persons, they also

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