Holy Spirit. The conventional way of understanding Christ’s miracles has typically been to argue that Christ performs miracles by virtue of his own divine nature. But on Owen’s (and others’) model, the Holy Spirit is the immediate author of Christ’s graces. This manner of understanding the relation of the Spirit to the human nature preserves the humanness of Jesus Christ and answers a host of exegetical questions. It seems that some Christians imagine that Christ’s divine nature takes the place of
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