Contents FOREWORD TO THE GERMAN EDITION   ix ABBREVIATIONS   xiii INTRODUCTION   I I. SPIRIT COME! The Holy Spirit, of strength and tenderness   7      1. Ruach, the Spirit’s Name   7      2. The Holy Spirit Comes to Help Us in Our Weakness   11      3. The Holy Spirit Fills Our Loneliness   14      4. In the School of “Brother Wind”   18 II. CREATOR: The Holy Spirit changes chaos into cosmos   23      1. The Spirit as Creator in Tradition   23      2. The Creator Spirit in Scripture   26      3. The Title “Creator,” an “Open Structure”   29      4. Experience of the Spirit as Creator   32      5. Come, Creator Spirit   36 III. FILL WITH HEAVENLY GRACE THE HEARTS THAT YOU HAVE MADE: The Holy Spirit renews the prodigies of the first Pentecost   41      1. The Holy Spirit and the Creatures’ Return to God   42      2. What Did the Spirit Bring at Pentecost that Was New?   45      3. The Spirit of Grace   48      4. The Baptism of the Spirit   53      5. Come, Visit, Fill!   57 IV. YOU WHOM WE NAME THE PARACLETE: The Holy Spirit teaches us to be paracletes too   61      1. The Sanctifying Work of the Spirit   62       2. A Name Born of Experience   64      3. Advocate, Consoler, and Spirit of Truth   66      4. The Paraclete, a “Person”   69      5. Be Paracletes  74 V. MOST HIGH GIFT OF GOD: The Holy Spirit teaches us to make our own life a gift   79      1. The Holy Spirit’s Very Own Name   80      2. The Holy Spirit, God’s “Gift” and God’s “Self-Giving”   82      3. Make Yourself Gift   84      4. The Holy Spirit Gives New Life to the Mutual Self-Giving of Husband and Wife   88 VI. LIVING WATER: The Holy Spirit communicates the divine life to us   95      1. Water, Life, and the Spirit   96      2. What Life?   100      3. Supernatural Life, or a Natural Super-Life?   103      4. The Life of the Spirit   106      5. Water the Thirsty Soil   109 VII. FIRE: The Holy Spirit frees us from sin and from lukewarm half-heartedness   113      1. He Will Baptize You with the Holy Spirit and Fire   113      2. The Holy Spirit Is the Remission of All Sins   116      3. A Penitential Pathway with the Holy Spirit   119      4. From Remorse to the Joy of Being Forgiven   123      5. Afire with the Spirit   126 VIII. LOVE: The Holy Spirit leads us to experience the love of God   131      1. New Wine in New Wineskins!   131      2. The Holy Spirit, Love of the Father and the Son   134      3. The Spirit Who Is Love, in the Church   139      4. All Were Filled with the Love of God!   144 IX. ANOINTING FOR THE SOUL: The Holy Spirit makes us share the fragrance of Christ’s holiness   151      1. Anointing: Figure, Event, and Sacrament   152       2. The Anointing in Christ: The Event   154      3. The Anointing in the Church: The Sacrament   158      4. Anointed in Spirit: A Way of Life   162      5. How to Receive the Anointing of the Spirit   165      6. Anointed to Spread the Pure Odor of Christ   168 X. SEVENFOLD IN YOUR GIFTS: The Holy Spirit adorns the Church with many charisms   171      1. What Is a Charism?   173      2. Seven Gifts, or Seven Charisms?   175      3. Vatican II: The Rediscovery of the Charisms   181      4. Pentecost Is Today!   184      5. Exercise of the Charisms   186 XI. FINGER OF GOD’S RIGHT HAND: The Holy Spirit brings the power of God to us   191      1. It Is through the Finger of God That I Cast out Devils   192      2. To Another Is Given the Gift of Working Miracles   195      3. Why Miracles?   197      4. In the Power of the Spirit   200 XII. THE FATHER’S SOLEMN PROMISE: The Holy Spirit enlivens our hope   205      1. The Spirit “Already” and “Not Yet”   205      2. The Spirit and the Promise   206       3. The Spirit, God’s Future   211      4. The Holy Spirit Gives Us Abundant Hope   213      5. The Promise Is for You!   216 XIII. GIFTING LIPS WITH THE WORD TO SAY: The Holy Spirit gives power to our proclaiming   219      1. Spirit and Word   219      2. Glossolalia and Singing in Tongues   221      3. Other Charisms Linked to the Word   228      4. Something Appeared to Them that Seemed like Tongues of Fire   231      5. From Babel to Pentecost   233 XIV. KINDLE YOUR LIGHT IN OUR MINDS: The Holy Spirit guides us to the fullness of truth   237       1. The Spirit Works in the Individual Believer   237      2. The Holy Spirit as Light, in the Bible and in the Fathers   239      3. What Light Does the Spirit Kindle, and What Does It Light Up?   245      4. Be Cleansed So As to Receive the Light   248 XV. POUR LOVE INTO OUR HEARTS: The Holy Spirit draws us from love of self to love of God   255      1. Light and Love   255      2. Love, the Christian’s New Law   258      3. The Holy Spirit Sets Us Free from Self-Love   261      4. Let Us No Longer Live for Ourselves   265      5. A Theology of the Spirit for the Computer Age   267 XVI. INFIRMITY IN THIS BODY OF OURS OVERCOMING WITH STRENGTH SECURE: The Holy Spirit prepares the way for the redemption of our body   271      1. Brother Body and Sister Soul   271      2. The Charism of Healings   273      3. From What Does the Holy Spirit Heal Us?   278      4. What about Those Who Are Not Healed?   280      5. A Spiritual Therapy   282 XVII. THE ENEMY DRIVE FROM US AWAY: The Holy Spirit gives us assurance of victory over evil   285      1. The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Combat   285      2. I Drive Out Devils with the Spirit of God   287      3. Does the “Enemy” Still Exist?   290      4. The Devil and Anxiety   296      5. The Holy Spirit Frees Us from All Fear   299 XVIII. PEACE THEN GIVE WITHOUT DELAY: The Holy Spirit gives us the wonderful peace of God   303      1. The Dove of Peace   303      2. The Fruits of the Spirit   306      3. Peace Is God!   309       4. In His Will Is Our Peace   312      5. How Happy the Peacemakers!   316 XIX. WITH YOU AS GUIDE WE AVOID ALL CAUSE OF HARM: The Holy Spirit is our guide in spiritual discernment   323      1. The Spirit as “Guide,” in Scripture and Through Tradition   324      2. Where the Spirit Provides Guidance: Conscience and the Church   326      3. The Spirit Helps Us Discern the Signs of the Times   330      4. Discernment in Our Personal Life   332      5. Allow the Holy Spirit to Guide Us   336 XX. THROUGH YOU MAY WE THE FATHER KNOW: The Holy Spirit enables us to cry out, Abba, Father!   339      1. From History to the Trinity   339      2. The Holy Spirit Leads Us to Know God as the “Father of His Son Jesus Christ”   341      3. The Holy Spirit Helps Us to Know God as “Our Father”   345      4. Make Us Know the Father’s Love!   350 XXI. THROUGH YOU MAY WE KNOW THE SON AS WELL: The Holy Spirit teaches us to proclaim that Jesus is Lord   353      1. He Will Bear Witness to Me   354      2. The Surpassing Knowledge of Christ   358      3. “All I Want to Know Is Christ”   362      4. Where the Holy Spirit Leads Us to Know the Son   365 XXII. AND YOU, THE SPIRIT OF THEM BOTH, MAY WE ALWAYS BELIEVE: The Holy Spirit gives us light to know the mystery of his own Person   369      1. The Problem of the Filioque   369      2. New Perspectives on the Origin of the Holy Spirit from the Father   375      3. The Eternal Anointing of the Word in the Holy Spirit   379      4. We Thank You, Holy Spirit!   382  EXCURSUS: The Veni Creator and the Doctrine of the Filioque   385 INDEX OF AUTHORS   391 INDEX OF SUBJECTS   395