Dear Editor,
As we ponder David Williams’ point about the Holy Spirit and love (Correspondence, from Matthew Mason’s September en) article in the July en, I think we need to ponder [Matthew’s] expression ‘the Father eternally begetting His Son’.
An eternally begotten Son is the creed I have followed. This seems subtly but importantly different from the Son being begotten through all time, i.e. eternally. Is an eternal action really what we believe about the Father’s relationship to the Son? And if God is love (which no-one is disputing) can the Spirit be that love? Part of the pondering we are invited into by David Williams.
