Spiritus:
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The Dove: Picasso
"spirit...
comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning "breath"...
"soul, courage, vigor" ...
In the Vulgate, the Latin word translates Greek (πνευμα), pneuma (Hebrew (רוח) ruah), as opposed to anima, translating psykhē.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit
Pneumatology (a breath):
Etymology: New Latin pneumatologia, from Greek pneumat-, pneuma + New Latin -logia -logy
: the study of spiritual beings or phenomena
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=pneumatology
The pneumatology of Philo
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"Philo (20 B.C. - 40 A.D.)
was an Alexandrian Jewish philosopher known for his study of pneumatology.
He treats God's divine powers by treating them as a single independent being, which he designates "Logos".
This name, which he borrowed from Greek philosophy, was first used by Heraclitus and then adopted by the Stoics. Philo's conception of the Logos is influenced by both of these schools. From Heraclitus he borrowed the conception of the "dividing Logos" (λόγος τομεύς), which calls the various objects into existence by the combination of contrasts (Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, § 43 [i. 503]), and from Stoicism, the characterization of the Logos as the active and vivifying power.
Philo borrowed also Platonic elements in designating the Logos as the "idea of ideas" and the "archetypal idea" (De Migratione Abrahami, § 18 [i. 452]; De Specialibus Legibus, § 36 [ii. 333]). There are, in addition, Biblical elements: there are Biblical passages in which the word of YHWH is regarded as a power acting independently and existing by itself, as Isaiah lv. 11 (comp. Matthew 10:13; Proverbs 30:4); these ideas were further developed by later Judaism in the doctrines of the Divine Word creating the world, the divine throne-chariot and its cherub, the divine splendor and its shekinah, and the name of God as well as the names of the angels; and Philo borrowed from all these in elaborating his doctrine of the Logos."
http://www.answers.com/topic/pneumatology
Pneumatology:
Pneumatology is the study of spiritual beings and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and God.
Pneuma (πνευμα) is Greek for "breath", which metaphorically describes a non-material being or influence.
World Book Dictionary defines pneumatology as
"1. Theology the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.
2. The doctrine of spirits or spiritual beings, in the 1600s considered a branch of metaphysics.
3. pneumatics.
4. Obsolete word for psychology."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneuma
http://mb-soft.com/believe/txw/bereshi2.htm
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