The Rev Canon Dr Michael Hull, Pantonian Professor of Divinity at the Scottish Episcopal Institute, will offer the annual Pantonian Lecture 2025 on Wednesday 17 December 2025 at 5pm via Zoom, entitled ‘The Holy Spirit in the Nicene Creeds’.
The Holy Spirit is given short shrift in the original Nicene Creed (325). Whilst belief in the Holy Spirit is surely affirmed in it, little is said of the Holy Spirit in comparison to what is said of the Father and the Son. Moreover, the Nicæno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381), the Nicene Creed we normally recite on Sundays at the Holy Eucharist, says much more insofar as it expands its words on the Holy Spirit from an original five to twenty-eight in Greek. This Lecture, first, casts into relief credal articulations of belief in the Son to illustrate their impact on articulations of belief in the Holy Spirit in the earlier and later Nicene Creeds to show, second, that the expanded articulation of belief in the Holy Spirit – credalised in 381 yet dormant in 325 – set the sails for Pneumatology as we have it today.
Event: Pantonian Lecture 2025
Lecturer: Rev Canon Dr Michael Hull
Time: Dec 17, 2025 05:00 PM London / 12 noon New York
Venue: Online via Zoom
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