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Reviews / Vigiliae Christianae 64 (2010) 414-429 419 Bogdan Gabriel Bucur, Angelomorphic Pneumatology: Clement of Alexan- dria and Other Early Christian Witnesses (Supplements to Vigiliae Christi- anae 95), Leiden-Boston: Brill 2009, xxx + 238 pp., ISBN 978-90-04- 17414-6, € 99.00 / US$ 147.00 (hardback). Over the past three years Bogdan Bucur has been informing the scholarly community about the importance of angelomorphism to the study of early Christian pneumatology. In Angelomorphic Pneumatology: Clement of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses Bucur presents in a coher- ent whole a revised form of the individual arguments he has published in numerous articles. Aside from a minimal amount of restructuring and certain minor changes in content, the book comprises the material found in his 2007 doctoral dissertation, which postdates some of the articles. Bucur desires to supplement the current understanding of early Chris- tian pneumatology by bringing to the fore the existence of a common, yet underappreciated, strain of pneumatological reasoning that associated the Holy Spirit with angelic characteristics while not reducing the iden- tity of the Spirit to that of an angel. Bucur’s goal is not only to highlight this logic, which he calls “angelomorphic pneumatology,” but also to show
Vigiliae Christianae – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2010
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