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1648 M. Prideaux & J. Prideaux Easy & Compend. Introd. Hist. 341 In Philosophy (as 'tis termed) those that have written 1. Metaphysics. 2. Pneumatology or the doctrine of Spirits..are almost innumerable.

1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory 919 Metaphysicks as now taken is a mixture of Organical and Real Knowledge; And part of it belongeth to Logick (the Organical part), and the rest is Theologie, and Pneumatologie, and the highest parts of Ontologie, or Real Science.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 26 Those Atomical physiologers, that were before Democritus and Leucippus, were all of them Incorporealists; joyning Theology and Pneumatology..together with their Atomical Physiology.

1755 A. Gerard Plan Educ. Marischal Coll. & Univ. Aberdeen 33 Pneumatology, or the Natural Philosophy of Spirits.

1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare VIII. Haml. 136 According to the pneumatology of that time, every element was inhabited by its peculiar order of spirits.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 355 Pneumatology, comprehending the doctrine concerning the nature of the human soul and of the Deity. View more context for this quotation

1834 S. Jackson tr. J.H. Jung-Stilling (title) Theory of pneumatology; what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 155 Pneumatology can be nothing more than a doctrine of our necessary ignorance of a certain problematical class of beings.

1882 J. B. Stallo Concepts Mod. Physics 128 Faith in spooks..is unwisdom in physics no less than in pneumatology.

1949 E. M. Butler Ritual Magic 34 His [sc. Iamblichus's] pneumatology included the gods, radiating a beneficent light, stable and calm; archangels, powerful and mild.

1997 I. Bostridge Witchcraft & its Transformations 81 He [sc. Hale] was designing an experimentum crucis to solve a knotty problem in pneumatology, the science of spirits.

1771 J. Beattie Ess. Truth (ed. 2) 163 A full and satisfactory discussion of it [sc. common sense in scientific reasoning] would do more real service to the philosophy of human nature;..would at once exalt pneumatology to the dignity of science.

1790 J. Beattie Elem. Moral Sci. I. p.xiii The Speculative part of the philosophy of the mind has been called Pneumatology.

1814 D. Stewart Elem. Philos. Human Mind II. Concl. 485 I have accordingly entitled my book, Elements—not of Logic or of Pneumatology, but—of the Philosophy of the Human Mind.

1935 J. I. Walsh Educ. Founding Fathers of Republic 23 The Brown theses of 1769 in pneumatology, a term almost the equivalent of our psychology.

1996 A. R. Gilgen et al. Post-Soviet Perspectives on Russ. Psychology 217 The emergence of empirical psychology resulted in renaming pneumatology ‘rational psychology’.

1881 O. T. Mason in Smithsonian Rep. (1883) 507 Inasmuch as we have borrowed a specific term from the theologians to stand for the whole study of man, we may be compelled to take the word pneumatology, meaning with them the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

1882 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church II. §95. 778 The pneumatology of Ephesians resembles that of John, as the christology of Colossians resembles the christology of John.

1977 G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit ii. 58 The essence of what may be called docetic pneumatology: the belief that the work of the Spirit..should be expected to take place outside, or in the gaps of, the rational faculty of understanding and moral judgement.

1992 C. G. Flegg Gathered under Apostles iii. 100 The Catholic Apostolics had a vision of the Church which cannot be separated from their pneumatology.