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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