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Holy Spirit as feminine entity (2)

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Divine Triad: Father, Mother, Son
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.02 Trinity of god
01.04.02.01 Divine Triad: Father, Mother, Son
Holy Spirit
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.02 Trinity of god
01.04.02.05 Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit as feminine entity
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.03 Assyrian substratum features in early Syriac Christianity
12.03.03.08 Trinitarian doctrine
12.03.03.08.02 Holy Spirit as feminine entity

Keywords
Holy spirit

Period
Roman Empire

Channel
Gnostic texts

Text
Gospel of Philip 17:
Some have said: ‘Mary conceived of the Holy Spirit’. They are wrong … when did a woman ever conceive of a woman?

Source (list of abbreviations)
Gospel of Philip 17

Bibliography

Brock, Sebastian. “The Holy Spirit as Feminine in Early Syriac Literature.” In: Janet Martin Soskice (ed.). After Eve: Women, Theology and the Christian Tradition. London: Marshall Pickering 1990, 73-88.

Amar Annus

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