SEI Short Course: Holy Spirit, Pt. 2 Images & Icons

SEI Short Course: on the Holy Spirit within the Trinity

The latest in the series of online short courses provided by the Scottish Episcopal Institute looks at the Holy Spirit within the Trinity, and is led by Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh, Director of Studies at the Institute.

The course is made up of three roughly thirty-minute video’s with questions for reflection or discussion. We will explore our theology of the Holy Spirit; we will study pneumatology, which is the official theological term for talking of the Holy Spirit.

23 September Images and Icons

In the second session we will have a look at how the Spirit is portrayed in art and iconography and how that symbolises the Spirit’s relationship to the Father and the Son, most of these images are of the Trinity. We will look at and analyse pictures from very early on in Christian history to pictures that are made today even some by AI. We will examen images that are anthropomorphic (where the Holy Spirit is imagined as a human being) and those that are completely abstract, and ideas that lie between.