In 1957 a Dutch theologian named George Johan Sirks published an article in the Harvard Theological Review provocatively titled: "The Cinderella of Theology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit." Sirks ...
The Holy Spirit—God’s Active Force ACCORDING to the Trinity doctrine, the holy spirit is the third person of a Godhead, equal to the Father and to the Son. As the book Our Orthodox Christian Faith says: “The Holy Spirit is totally God.” In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word most frequently used for “spirit” is ruʹach, meaning “breath; wind; spirit.” In the Greek Scriptures, the ...
This will be the fifth, and last, of my columns in this short series on the Holy Spirit. Admittedly, there is still so much that can and ought to be said about the need for a more robust pneumatology ...
National Catholic Reporter: Catholics need to focus more attention on the Holy Spirit
To write of the Holy Spirit is to write of God, as the ecumenical creeds affirm; to write of his works is to write of the action of God through all of human history (he “convicts the world of sin, ...
ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORIES Holy Spirit Empowers Samson What made Samson one of the strongest men of all time? Read the illustrated story online or from a printed PDF.
Is the holy spirit a person or a force? Replace myths and misconceptions with facts. Learn the meanings of the original-language words ruach and pneuma.
The Bible’s Viewpoint Is the Holy Spirit a Person? WHAT is God’s holy spirit? In its opening words, the Bible speaks of the holy spirit —also rendered “God’s active force”— as “moving to and fro over the surface of the waters.” (Genesis 1:2) In the account of Jesus’ baptism, while God is described as being in “the heavens,” the holy spirit appears “descending like a ...