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McIntyre’s work addresses one of the most difficult aspects of the doctrine—the heterogeneity of the biblical and traditional material from which it is derived—and points to the areas where the church must act to recover the sense of the immediacy of the Holy Spirit. The book explores the nature, origins and development of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, finding its many recurring expressions...

admit that I have always regarded this item of trinitarian doctrine to rest upon John’s Gospel, 17:21. There Jesus prays that his disciples and those who in the future come to believe because of their witness, will have the unity which he and the Father share, ‘thou Father art in me, and I in thee’. The concept of the emperichoresis between Father and Son implicit in this text is then applied by extension to the Spirit in his relations to the Father and the Son. But what the study of the doctrine
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