these were the mission of the Son, the mission of the Holy Spirit, and the role of the Church.10 Uteshitel’ (‘The Comforter’) may serve to give some idea of the ethos, problematic, and particular strengths or weaknesses of his theological approach. So far as theological method is concerned, Bulgakov’s study of the Paraclete stresses the primacy of Scripture, berating participants in the Filioque controversy (whether Orthodox or Catholic) for appearing to place the Fathers on the same