Wow! That was so over my head, I didn't even feel a breeze when it whizzed by. What is pneumatology & who (or what) are the Neo Patonists?
"Wow! That was so over my head, I didn't even feel a breeze when it whizzed by. What is pneumatology & who (or what) are the Neo Patonists?"
Pneumatology is the theology of the Holy Spirit. As it developed in the East, it is absolutely vital to an understanding of Christology, including the Incarnation, and explains why that old bugaboo the filioque controversy is so very important. Neo-Platonism was a school of philiosophy which many in the East and the West sought to reconcile with Christianity. In the East, the great theologian St. Gregory Palamas essentially defeated it but in the West it had great influence on scholasticism and in many ways determined the way the West does theology, especially in the area of the essence and energies of God.