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In this third book, Balthasar presents various ways in which something of the Creator Spirit should be experienced through his manifestations: in the way in which he leads human persons to the living God (“Faith”), in the way in which he distinguishes the spirits of this time (“Crisis”), in the way in which he initiates into the mystery of the Incarnate One (“Night”), in the way in which he...

the Spirit remains the unknown God who makes God known to us, his “a priori” cannot be objectified as an additional factor in our demonstrations. And yet, through his efficacy, he makes up to us for the comprehensibility that he withholds: the demonstration he constructs is the “demonstration of the Spirit and of power”, in such a way that in this apodeixis the Spirit is the one who demonstrates and, precisely for this reason, the one who is demonstrated. But since the Spirit’s wish is not to demonstrate
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