The doctrine on the habitation of the Holy Spirit in the human in the theology of cardinal Yves Congers and its evaluation by Orthodox theology
Cardinal Yves Congers is a French Catholic theologian, a consultant of the II Vatican Counsel. Being well-known in the West he isn`t known for the Russian-speaking reader. His theology is presented in the West very well, but there are no investigations in Russian, his books are not translated into Russian. However his activity has a great meaning for the dialogue between the Eastern and Western Churches. Anthropological pneumatology is one of the aspects of the soteriology - the doctrine of the salvation. Anthropological pneumatology of Cardinal Yves Congers confirms two things: the importance of the theology for the doctrine about the man and the importance of the anthropology for the doctrine about God. This doctrine is influenced by the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Our deification is understood by Cardinal Yves Congers as affiliation to God. It is preformed by Holy Spirit through His habitation in the soul of the righteous man. The aim of this article is to present the doctrine of Cardinal Yves Congers of the habitation of the Saint Spirit in the human and to appreciate this doctrine from the Orthodox point of view.