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“The Spirit blows where it pleases,” Jesus said to Nicodemus. “You hear its sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” The Spirit, like the wind, is hard to pin down. Any discussion of the Spirit is fraught with the difficulty of speaking about something or someone who defies definition and who purposely averts attention from...

said all it could say about the Holy Spirit; only that it had said what it must since it could not remain silent where error prevailed. Thus, the church’s confession of the Holy Spirit has always seemed somewhat unfinished—which is not necessarily a bad thing. The church’s teaching on the Holy Spirit is perhaps what Nicolas Berdyaev has called “the last unexplored theological frontier.”6 In these latter days of the church, this “final frontier” is receiving increasing attention.7 The rise of the
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