Preface
Preface
This volume is the fruit of a happy collaboration that originated during the years 2006–2007 when the three of us were at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Our partnership began when Lewis Ayres suggested that we translate Didymus’s On the Holy Spirit with a view to publication. It was truly a joint effort. Each week the three of us prepared translations of a predetermined amount of text. At weekly meetings we then went through the Latin line-by-line, discussing the meaning and producing a collaborative translation that incorporated the best elements from each of our efforts. The translation of Athanasius’s Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit is principally the work of Mark DelCogliano, though major sections were completed in collaboration with Andrew Radde-Gallwitz. All three of us carefully went through both translations in the autumn of 2007 in preparation for a weekend of meetings in January 2008, during which each was substantially revised. Two further years of tinkering with the translations on the part of all three of us have produced the versions that appear in this volume. Each section of the General Introduction has a primary author, whose work was critiqued by his two collaborators. Mark DelCogliano wrote the brief survey of pre-fourth century pneumatology and the Introduction to Athanasius’s Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit, and Andrew Radde-Gallwitz the Introduction to Didymus’s On the Holy Spirit. Lewis Ayres wrote the sections, “Athanasius’s Argument” and “Didymus’s Argument,” within these two Introductions.