and through its ineffaceable diversity of particularities. Here again the ministry of the Spirit comes to the fore. The Spirit is the “particularizer” (sadly, something not seen strongly in Hopkins): unifying and uniting, certainly, but in so doing liberating things to be the particular things they are created to be. The beautiful unity that the Spirit generates is not one of homogenized harmony or bland replication, but one in which the unique particularity of things is enabled and promoted; it