By Ambrose Ih-Ren Mong

 

For Griffiths the Holy Spirit is

 ‘the eternal uncreated energy of God the Father and the Son as well’.10 He says that the Spirit, manifests itself in the energies in matter, in the energies of life, the energies in our whole human being  The Spirit is the Love of God acting in us as an energy, bringing us into being, and calling us back to Himself. Love is working in us to return.”

In sum, the love between the three persons of the Trinity is deep and mutual, but they are neither merged into one nor separated as individuals. It is their mutual interdependence that gives rise to a wholeness that is greater than the sum of their parts. This is the fundamental idea behind Griffith’s formulation of the Christian advaita.