pneumatology

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the study of spirits or spiritual beings; in older philosophy, the study of the soul and God

   The university's pneumatology course examined traditional arguments about the soul's immortality.

2. 2
   noun

   the branch of Christian theology concerned with the Holy Spirit

   Her research in pneumatology compares accounts of the Holy Spirit across several traditions.

3. 3
   noun

   obsolete: the scientific study of air and gases

   Early writers sometimes used pneumatology for experiments involving air pressure.

Formed from Greek pneuma ('breath, spirit') + -logy ('study'). The Greek noun could denote either moving air or spirit, which accounts for the word's theological, philosophical, and obsolete physical senses.

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