Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of the Holy Spirit

• The first book length treatment of Irenaeus' theology of the Holy Spirit in English
• Helps to explain the development of a Trinitarian account of God by revealing the transition from accounts utilizing binitarian logic to those utilizing Trinitarian logic
• Highlights the central importance of Jewish forms of thought to early Christian theological accounts

Readership: Students and scholars of the early church; of trinitarian theology; of pneumatology; of Jewish theology

Anthony Briggman, Assistant Professor of the History of Early Christianity, Emory University

Preface
Introduction
1: Justin Martyr and the Pneumatology of the mid-Second Century
2: The Beginning of a Pneumatology
3: Pneumatological Expansion
4: The Emergence and Development of Foundational Themes
5: His Hand and Wisdom
6: The Salvific Spirit
7: Trinitarian Convictions, Trinitarian Logic
Conclusion and Epilogue
Appendix: Language of Revelation in Justin s First and Second Apologies, and Dialogue with Trypho
Bibliography