Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit

Epistulae ad Serapionem

Written about 357 to 359; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Four letters that defend the full divinity of the Holy Spirit.

Letter · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Shapland, The Letters of Saint Athanasius Concerning the Holy Spirit (1951): 358 to 359
Place written not known: Written while he hid among the monks of Egypt in his third exile, 356 to 362; the place is not known (Barnes, Athanasius and Constantius, 1993)