The Holy Spirit: Presence, Power, Person

Abstract

The author argues for the complementarity of impersonal and personal images of the Holy Spirit. A more robust and trinitarian pneumatology is gained by moving from presence to power to personhood. At issue is the specific manner in which the Holy Spirit is person. Others are enabled to emerge into the fullness of personhood through the self-effacing nature of the Holy Spirit's person. The author then introduces in an analogous manner the christological notion of the enhypostasis and applies it to pneumatology thereby positing an intrinsic pneumatological dimension to the graced process of personal perfection in Christ, Mary, and ourselves.