are left with some difficult choices, and the decisions they do make have a number of implications—including theological ones—whether they consciously and intentionally recognize them or not. Christians have typically wanted to capitalize and offer articular definition when the referent of ruach or pneuma is judged to be the Holy Spirit, that is, God’s Spirit. One suspects Christians have engaged in such activities not simply out of pious reverence but also in light of the way they came to formulate