THE ACTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE HISTORY OF SALVATION

Abstract

According to the Bible, since creation until the final consumption, The Spirit is attracted, for what is bodily and historie: He makes the cosmos live, and inhabits the people, to the point of resting in a concrete human body, of the Christ; with Pentecost, The Spirit is shed “upon all the flesh”. He is truly the power of God in history; to his blow everything is transfigured: The thorn body of the crucified becomes the glorious body of the resurrected; the human word is translated into the word of God; the bread becomes the body of Christ: the Church becomes an anticipation of the kingdom; the world becomes a restored transparency of the fatherland; Attention to the Spirit's mystery is an understanding of the fundamental value that exists among the Pneuma and the Church: it is the Spirit that intervenes to build and characterize the Church as a sacrament. History has had its heavenly prologue, and it will have its heavenly epilogue. The time of the Spirit is not a historical time, but a state of interiority until the Trinitarian communion. The itinerary cannot be decomposed, and is very precise: from God absconditus to the Spirit, in the Son, through the Spirit, through the Monogenous, until the ineffable abyss of the Father. The history of the Church is, already the last time, scatology's beginning, and moreover, it can be said, a time of a particular action of the Holy S.