Najeeb Awad aims at defending the personhood of the Holy Spirit by proposing answers to these questions: What is the Holy Spirit in relation to God? Is He a spirit-like presence of a monistic deity; is He merely a charismatic, supernatural power bestowed upon Jesus;oris He rather the third divine person in the Trinity, who is co-influential in and co-constitutive of the Godhead? The author re-examines the validity of both Western and Eastern trinitarian theologies and corrects their reduction of the Spirit either to a mere ‘relationship’ or ‘mode of presence’, or to a semi-subordinatehypostasisin a hierarchical divine Godhead that exists by virtue of the Fatheralone. He argues that viewing the Godhead as a ‘reciprocalkoinonia’offers a balanced attention to the Spirit’s person and actions. He then shows that the claim of the Holy Spirit’sparticularpersonhood provides new dimensions for understanding God’s unfathomable and mysterious personal being.weiterlesen