This thesis analyzes the pneumatology of Didymus the Blind as expressed in
three of his writings: the Commentary on Genesis, the Commentary on Zechariah, and
On the Holy Spirit. It attends specifically to the relationship between this pneumatology
and Didymus’s concept of virtue formation. Chapters 1 and 2 provide a survey of the
state of Didymean scholarship and a sketch of his biography.
Chapter 3 identifies the concept of virtue formation that Didymus espouses in
the Commentary on Genesis and the Commentary on Zechariah, while chapter 4
describes the pneumatology of On the Holy Spirit.
Finally, chapter 5 draws together the observations of chapters 3 and 4 to
demonstrate their interconnectedness and to argue that the pneumatology which Didymus
constructs in On the Holy Spirit is, in fact, the underlying source of agency for the notion
of virtue formation that he develops in his commentaries on Genesis and Zechariah.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:SBTS/oai:digital.library.sbts.edu:10392/5479 |
| Date | 02 January 2018 |
| Creators | Hedges, Zachary |
| Contributors | Haykin, Michael |
| Source Sets | Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic thesis, Text |
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