Articles

Jesus, John, and the Jewish Roots of the Filioque

Brant Pitre

Abstract

Brant Pitre argues that Revelation 22:1 provides a robust biblical foundation for the Filioque doctrine by describing "living water" proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb. By integrating Jewish scriptural imagery of protological and eschatological rivers with Johannine pneumatology, Pitre demonstrates that the Spirit’s procession from both the Father and the Son is a climactic scriptural revelation. This "new ressourcement" offers potential common ground for Catholic-Orthodox rapprochement.

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