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Moltmann, “the foremost Protestant theologian in the world,” brings his characteristic audacity to this traditional topic, cutting to the heart of the matter with a simple identification: What we experience every day as the spirit of life is the spirit of God. Such considerations give Moltmann’s treatment of the different aspects of life in the Spirit a verve and vitality that are concrete and...

to mean that the Spirit is subordinated to the Son as the Son is subordinated to the Father. ‘The Spirit of the Son’ then means the Son’s mode of efficacy—a way in which the Son exercises his power—but not an independent divine person, over against the Son; just as ‘the Spirit of the Father’ means the Father’s mode of efficacy, but not an independent divine person, over against the Father. Tertullian’s famous trinitarian formula, una substantia—tres personae, asserts the divine personhood of the
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