Pneuma

He criticized Erasistratus for ignoring the fact that in the “vapor-baths in a wine-cask” that patients are subjected to their whole bodies being “emptied much more quickly than in the baths” and yet they do not stifle like men in the bath houses, because in these vapor-baths, they are breathing cool air (113). Galen hypothesizes that if they were not breathing this cold air, they would surely die exactly as men do in the bath houses. Galen does, however, believe that breathing is associated with the nourishment of the pneuma. Galen asserts that this pneuma is “either the substance of the soul or its primary organ” and that this pneuma “must of necessity be nourished” (121) He states that this pneuma is nourished not by “the vapor rising to it from the blood” but instead that it is by “breathing in through the nostrils that the nourishment comes for the psychic pneuma”(123). With this, Galen concludes that respiration is for both the regulation of heat in the body and for nourishment of the…

History of Breath Practice The history of breathe practice is well known and documented and breath and breathing have been essential elements of Asian philosophies since ancient times. According to Tadashi Ogawa, a Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Kyoto University, “Ethics is essentially a way of life through breathing”. (Hackenberg, Skof, p 201). According to the Soto Zen monk and teacher Shunryu Suzuki, “What we call ’I’ is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we…

The universe is a spirit in the stoic’s eyes and because of it they can agree with Aristotle in the concept of empty space. Out of nothing not can come (Parmenides) The Passive elements water and earth. The active ones being Fire and Air, the pneuma (spirit) is the main cause of all exists growth and guidance. What keeps an object from falling apart? The pneuma. The pneuma has two motions in the body an inward one that makes things connected and the outward motion which gives qualities to the…

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a theological perspective. Like earlier in the passage, Paul utilizes another list repetition to emphasize the unity between God, the faith, and the people; the reuse of “one” seven times in this conglomerate of three verses is an obvious nod to Paul’s emphasis on unity. In verse three, Paul referenced a being that is the “Spirit.” Again, he references this in verse four, but when he refers to the “Spirit,” is he speaking about the holy essence of God or the relationship between God and his…

Pneuma and Logos: The Role of the Holy Spirit in Biblical Hermeneutics, was the PhD dissertation of Dr. John W Wyckoff in the year 1990. In this dissertation, he displays a scholarly approach in portraying the integral part and as well as analyze other doctrinal perspectives that discount the need of the Holy Spirit in the interpretation of the Holy Bible. The book has been distributed over five distinct chapters where each chapter takes a related and structured projection of the theological…

Christ. This relationship goes beyond simply claiming a belief in the Resurrection. In fact, for Balthasar, neither the empty tomb nor any Jesus’s post-resurrection appearances constitute proof of the Resurrection itself (195). Rather, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in the Church is proof of the Resurrection (212). He gets here by claiming that the Resurrection is the beginning of all ecclesial theory. This is because in the Resurrection, Christ was reclaiming the doxa, the dunamis, the…

Introduction There are many important doctrines that can be drawn from the Bible and applied to the life of the believer. One of these doctrines includes the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Upon receiving the gift of salvation, the believer is immediately indwelt by the Holy Spirit where He remains for the rest of the believer’s life. As believers who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, it is important to know how the Holy Spirit works in our lives and how we can work with the Holy Spirit to better…

we sin. When we are disobedient to God, we sin. The question is why do we sin? What is our purpose in sinning? Quite simply, we sin because we want to. It serves our own purpose and not God’s. God told Adam that when he ate of the Tree of Knowledge, he would surely die. Adam and Eve did not immediately fall over physically dead when they ate of the fruit but they immediately died spiritually. Their spirits became separated from God and under the condemnation of the law. We are created in…

founded the basis of medicine and instead adopted the theological belief that “nature does nothing in vain” to explain the structure and function of the body. Galen and his successors taught that the liver produced venous blood from food that was ingested. It was subsequently distributed to the rest of the blood through an ebb and flow. The ebb and flow proposed that the body constantly consumed the blood as nutrient. In short, blood was constantly being wasted and replenished by the food…