The Holy Spirit as Gift and the Communion of the Trinity | Fr. Gilles Emery, OP
The Thomistic Institute
The Thomistic Institute
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Holy Spirit as Gift and Trinity and Communion. |
| 0:05.0 | The theology of the Holy Spirit as Gift in Latin medieval theology |
| 0:12.0 | draws heavily on St. Augustine's De Trinitate. |
| 0:17.0 | In this work, the Holy Spirit as gift appears in two central places. |
| 0:25.6 | The first place is in book 5 of Augustine's De Trinitatee. |
| 0:31.6 | Here, Augustine shows that gift, d'arnum, as a proper name of the Holy Spirit, is a relative name. |
| 0:41.3 | The context is precisely that of relative names, and gift as a proper name of the Holy Spirit is such a relative name. |
| 0:51.3 | A relative name which correlates with the giver, that is, Father and Son. |
| 0:57.0 | Augustine shows that gift is a personal property because it signifies a relation. |
| 1:05.0 | And since the gift is from the Father and the Son, Agassin explains that the Holy Spirit is the communion, |
| 1:14.6 | communion of the father and the son. |
| 1:18.6 | Both names, gift and communion, are intrinsically linked. |
| 1:25.6 | Further, Agasson explains that although the Holy Spirit is given only in time, |
| 1:32.3 | Donatum, that is in the economy, |
| 1:36.3 | the Holy Spirit is giveable, Donabile, from all eternity. |
| 1:42.3 | And in this sense, the Holy Spirit is properly the gift from all eternity. |
| 1:49.0 | Then in book 15, Augustine shows that the name charity or love, Caritasitas is proper to the Holy Spirit and Charity is identified with the |
| 2:10.8 | personal property of the Holy Spirit Augustine makes explicitly clear that the Holy Spirit is the gift because he is the charity of love of the Father and Son, |
| 2:27.3 | a love who reveals the communion of the Father and Son. |
| 2:32.3 | So, love accounts for both communion and gift. |
| 2:38.9 | The central element I want to underline is that for the mature Augustine, the property |
| 2:46.1 | of the Holy Spirit as gift is grounded in his relative property as love or cherry. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Thomistic Institute, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Thomistic Institute and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.