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Who is the Holy Spirit and how does the Spirit come to be in relation to the Father and the Son? What is the mission of the Spirit and where does it come from? Chris Holmes takes up the questions surrounding the Spirit’s procession and mission with the help of three of the church’s greatest teachers—Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Karl Barth. Drawing on their engagements with the Fourth Gospel,...

“Because he [Jesus] knew all people and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in everyone” (John 2:24–25). Augustine comments, “Human beings put their faith in Christ, and Christ does not put his faith in human beings.”4 Augustine’s point is that we are rather like Nicodemus. We dwell in the dark, unwilling and unable to see. We only rather superficially believe that this one takes away the sin of the world. Those to whom Christ entrusts himself believe otherwise. They
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