Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2000

Is the Spirit present or absent in creation? An ecological theology of the Spirit will need to embrace both the “sacramental” and the “prophetic-eschatological” approaches to the work of the Spirit in creation. The Spirit can rightly be understood as the ever-present life-giving Creator. But this presence of the Spirit has the elements of “not-yet” as the Spirit suffers with groaning creation, and of “already” in the Spirit’s communion in love with each creature.