Decousu, Laurence. <br/><br/>
La perte de l'Esprit Saint et son recouvrement dans l'Église ancienne  la réconciliation des hérétiques et des pénitents en occident du IIIe siècle jusqu'à Grégoire le Grand /  [electronic resource] : 
par Laurence Decousu. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  [2015] 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 545 p.) 
 - Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology ;  1 .
 - Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology ;  1. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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<br/><br/> When God gives the Spirit to believers, how is the Spirit conferred? Can the Spirit be lost? Laurence Decousu answers these questions by studying the reconciliation of penitents and those who have separated themselves from the Church. Ever since the Middle Ages, theology has held that the Spirit is given through rites celebrated once for all : Baptism, Confirmation, Order. The Church Fathers did not see these rites as transmitting the Spirit and the effects of the Spirit. For them, reception of the Spirit depended on a divine initiative that was direct, free and sovereign. This study is an important contribution to the renewal of pneumatology, pastoral practice and ecumenical relations. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004291683 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1163/9789004291683 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015002284 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Holy Spirit--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT121.3  / .D43 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>270.2