The Church as the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit. The Paracletic Identity of the Church. Sketches on Pneumatology and Ecclesiology

Abstract

When we ponder over the essence of the Church nowadays – with her identity, features, event, sacramental economy, liturgy, anthropology – all of these perspectives and attempts at describing the abounding ecclesiological reality always lead us to the pneumatological viewpoint, which most clearly shows the issue of the community of the God’s people. Therefore, we have a right to say that ecclesiology today bears permanent features of pneumatological renaissance, and the deeper this renaissance is rooted in the study of the Church, the clearer we can see the core of the cathedral of the Holy Spirit, which has been risen since the prehistoric times until today. This article provides a testimony of how the Church is constantly becoming the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit acquiring in this way its paracletic identity.