Introduction -- The procession of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament -- The Greek Fathers -- The Latin West -- Maximus the Confessor -- The filioque from the seventh to the eleventh century -- The filioque from the eleventh century to the thirteenth century -- The Council of Lyons to the eve of Ferrara-Florence -- The Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-39) -- From Florence to the modern era -- The twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Epilogue
Summary
Ed Siecinski examines how the Church has viewed the procession of the Holy Spirit throughout its history, beginning with the Trinitarian controversies of the early Christian centuries and moving through the Greek and Latin fathers, the 9th-century debates, the Councils of Lyons and Ferrara-Florence to 20th- and 21st-century theologians
