In retrospect, Karl Barth conceded that “everything which needs to be said, considered, and believed about God the Father and God the Son . .

. might be shown and illuminated in its foundation through God the Holy Spirit.

” Nevertheless, he refrained from doing so because it was “still too difficult to distinguish between God’s Spirit and man’s spirit,” and so it was—then. However, the late twentieth-century explosion in various disciplines of thought now provides greater discernment between human and divine spirit, a better understanding of the logic of spirit, and the concept and role of spirit in distinction to mind and body.

Gorsuch’s theological interdisciplinary investigation into the analogia spiritus and a Christian perichoretic relational ontology brings new meaning and coherence to previously difficult scriptures. Moreover, it provides the fundamental landscape for addressing issues of profound theological consequence: (1) redressing the death of transcendence with a new understanding of relational dynamics through which free, temporal, and self-determining human beings might mutually relate with an Eternal God of providence; (2) laying the framework for a viable Christian pluralistic hypothesis in an increasingly pluralistic world; and (3) providing an enriched theological anthropology for addressing human spirit, origins, and theodicy.

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