We Are All Afraid of the Spirit

Karl Rahner on Pentecost as the feast of divine unrest

“We are afraid of the Spirit. In a word, he is too incalculable for us. We believe only in theory and not in practical life that God is infinite incomprehensibility into which the Holy Spirit wants to hurl us. We make our permanent home in what should be merely the starting point or take-off runway for this movement of human beings through faith, hope, …