About the Book The Holy Spirit is in a way the most mysterious of the three names of God. For many it is the unknown God (Acts 17:23). How can a Spirit be love? How can it be a person? What role can a Spirit have in the trinitarian relations? In The Breath of God, Veto argues that a more exact comprehension of the third divine person can be reached by considering the way it acts in the economy of salvation and how it reveals itself in its scriptural names: Ruah and Pneuma, breath or wind. Just as, in the eternal life of God, the Father and the Son are precisely what their names designate, likewise, the Holy Spirit is the Breath of God. The procession of the Spirit is the breathing out of the Father into the Son, the communication of one intimacy into another, and the breathing back of the Son into the Father. This leads to reshaping many aspects of trinitarian theology, in particular divine personhood. It is also fruitful for the believers life of prayer because it offers a better understanding of the distinct relationship one can have to Father, Son, and Spirit. -- Book Synopsis The Holy Spirit is in a way the most mysterious of the three names of God. For many it is the unknown God (Acts 17:23). How can a Spirit be love? How can it be a person? What role can a Spirit have in the trinitarian relations? In The Breath of God, Veto argues that a more exact comprehension of the third divine person can be reached by considering the way it acts in the economy of salvation and how it reveals itself in its scriptural names: Ruah and Pneuma, breath or wind. Just as, in the eternal life of God, the Father and the Son are precisely what their names designate, likewise, the Holy Spirit is the Breath of God. The procession of the Spirit is the breathing out of the Father into the Son, the communication of one intimacy into another, and the breathing back of the Son into the Father. This leads to reshaping many aspects of trinitarian theology, in particular divine personhood. It is also fruitful for the believers life of prayer because it offers a better understanding of the distinct relationship one can have to Father, Son, and Spirit. Review Quotes Interiority, hiddenness, anonymity, insubstantiality, fluidity... such challenging features of the Holy Spirit led Vet to investigate the full significance of a neglected divine name: Breath . Informed and insightful, this book revisits traditions and sets landmarks toward a renewed pneumatology. With refinement, by means of deep thinking and aesthetics, Vet introduces his readers into a joyful gaze at the Three in their uniqueness. --Emmanuel Durand, OP, Angelicum University, Rome About the Author Etienne Vet is a Roman Catholic Priest of the Chemin Neuf Community. He is Professor of Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome, Italy) and Director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies of the same university. He is the author of From Christ to the Trinity ( Du Christ la Trinit , 2012).