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Kilian McDonnell, OSB, (1921–2025) was a priest, theologian, and monk of Saint John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. He received his STD from the theological faculty of Trier, Germany, and taught at the Saint John’s University School of Theology. He was the founder of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at Saint John’s University and the author of several books, including five volumes of biblical poetry published by Liturgical Press.

• To Do Pneumatology is to Do Trinity; Struggling with Ambiguity; The Way of Doxology; To Do Pneumatology is to Do Eschatology; Movement Toward Fixity: Holy Spirit in Patristic Eschatology; To Do Pneumatology Is to Start at the Beginning,; No Unified Vision in the New Testament; Losing the Battle to Stay with the Imprecision of the Scriptures; The Mission of the Spirit: Junior Grade?; God Beyond the Self of God; The Return: The Highway Back to the Father; The Spirit Is the Touch of God; The Tradition of Subordinationism; Basil: Not Subordination but Communion of Life with the Father and the Son; Gregory Nazianzus: The Divine Pedagogy in Steps; The Council of Constantinople: The Triumph of Discretion; To Do Pneumatology is to Start with Experience; Experience of the Spirit in the Early Church; William of St. Thierry: 'So I May Know by Experience,'; Bernard of Clairvaux: 'Today We Read in the Book of Experience,'; The Role of Pneumatology in an Integral Theology,; The Continuing Quest for a Theology of the Holy Spirit,; Toward a Theology in the Holy Spirit."

This is a good book, and a delight to read; one of the best you could read on the Spirit. Its author is an elderly theologian, a monk and priest of St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, a great ecumenist, a gifted writer and clearly a deeply spiritual man. He has a fine gift for language, and he wears his scholarship lightly. This is a book that deserves wide reading and deep pondering.Pacifica