On the Holy Spirit (De Spiritu Sancto)
Basil of Caesarea · 375 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
2 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
Sentences remembered from it
- Basil of Caesarea NPNF2 VIII, De Spiritu Sancto, Chapter XV, 36
- Basil of Caesarea NPNF2 VIII, De Spiritu Sancto, Chapter XXVII, 66
The treatise that argued the Spirit's divinity from the words of the doxology rather than from a proof text — and, in its twenty-seventh chapter, made the classic case that what the Church does without a written warrant is apostolic tradition and not an innovation. Written in 374 at Amphilochius of Iconium's asking, and dedicated to him.