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VictorMac's avatar

This is great. Great work Wyatt

I remember thinking conceptually of the Spirit as a “bridge” between the father and the son, thus making the spirit both common to the father and the son, but also of the same essence due to The Spirit’s ability to be a part of that communion. Sounds like jargon but yeah.

In my head (at that time anyway), I thought of the Spirit as a “platform” for all of Gods work. Just conceptually.

Kinda like when you say the spirit is the common love between the father and son.

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The Threshold Project's avatar

This is so helpful, and it actually makes me wonder (kind of as a human more than a theologian). If that’s true within God, the Spirit as the love of Father and Son, what does that love feel like toward us? How does it arrive in a human life? I imagine Augustine is doing something way more ontological here, but Scripture seems to keep pulling that love outward into human experience, human perception, human limits. I’m curious how you think about that layer.

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