Essay on the Holy Spirit by Etienne Vetö
Published : 11/13/2020 12:08:08
Categories : Publishing news
"Dal chiodo alla chiave", the new series of the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, was born with the aim of being a cultural and ecclesial space of expression of an academic theology yes, but also beautiful and above all able to really nourish the concrete spiritual life of believers. "Il Soffio di Dio. Un saggio sullo Spirito Santo nella Trinità" by Etienne Vetö is part of this new series which has as its source of inspiration Francis, the Pope of a Church outgoing towards the existential peripheries of today's women and men.
Vetö's essay shows that a more exact understanding of the Holy Spirit can be developed from his main name revealed in Scripture: "Ruah" and "Pneuma", breath and wind. The Author tries to answer the most common questions about the Holy Spirit with the aim of leading the reader to reflect on some aspects of Trinitarian theology and, in particular, the analogical dimension of the notion of person: the fact that the third Person is the Breath of the Father (and of the Son) means that, like each one of them, the Spirit has his own - unique - way of being a person and this is revealed in being "breath". In the preface, Piero Coda underlines how well explained within the volume is the ontological meaning offered to us about the Mystery of the Holy Spirit by the metaphor of breath/breath. It is a text that is an instrument of theological deepening and that is also striking for its cover.
The red colour, taken from a detail of the fresco The Breath of God pushes towards salvation, painted by Marko Ivan Rupnik in the Basilica of the Holy Family Solin (Croatia), is contrasted with black almost as if to symbolise the warmth of the Breath of Life of the Father and the Son.
