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The Progressive Mystery: Tracing the Elusive Spirit in Scripture & Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

A careful exploration of how the identity and mission of the Holy Spirit have been progressively revealed throughout Holy Scripture and then interpreted by the Church. The Progressive Mystery describes how the Spirit has been revealed, understood, and interpreted throughout the sweep of Holy Scripture and the ways in which the orthodox understanding of the mission of the Holy Spirit has...

supernatural strength, force, power, and energy,”30 it must be kept in mind that this force, this power, was the force and power of Almighty God himself. While short of explicit personal distinction, it is linked to God’s very real presence in power and action. As the wind is seen by its effects, so God is physically present through his ruach. Used numerous times in connection with breath, ruach can be used to refer to the life-sustaining function called breathing.31 This breath
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