ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that Augustine's pneumatology retains the anagogical "spirit" of the early dialogues that is, their concern with the redemptive economy of the Spirit while bringing it into greater focus. It highlights the fundamental continuity that exists between the Trinitarian theology of the Roman writings and those writings immediately before and after them. In the Roman writings Augustine does not, however, speak forthrightly about the Son's love for the Father when discussing the Son as the image of God and archetype of the human soul. The chapter also demonstrates that Ambrose's treatise of the same name is just as plausible as a resource, if not more so, on account of themes and arguments found in it but not in Didymus' De Spiritu sancto. It concludes by viewing Augustine's love-pneumatology, on the one side, in relation to the early dialogues and, on the other side, in relation to the Thagastan writings and beyond.
