Terminology Tuesday: PNEUMATOMACHOI

PNEUMATOMACHOI. Athanasius and others initially used this term (πνευματομαχοῦντες, πνευματομάχοι) to refer to those who, though not Arians, did not accept the divinity of the Holy Spirit. They were subsequently called “Macedonians.”

P. Meinhold, Pneumatomachoi: PWK 41, 1066–1101; W.-D. Hauschild, Die Pneumatomachen, Hamburg 1967; R.P.C. Hanson, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy 318–381, Edinburgh 1988, 760–772; M.A.G. Haykin, The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatochian Controversy of the Fourth Century, Leiden 1994.

Simonetti, M. (2014). Pneumatomachoi. In A. Di Berardino & J. Hoover (Eds.), J. T. Papa, E. A. Koenke, & E. E. Hewett (Trans.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity (Vol. 3, p. 237). Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic; InterVarsity Press.