Write 6 pages with APA style on Take up to ten hours to do interviews with three leaders from three churches of different traditions about their views of the role of the Holy Spirit. The primary aim of this exercise is for you to evaluate how each leader’s view of the Holy Spirit. The leaders were asked to dwell on the role of the Holy Spirit, its characteristics as well overall significance. In order to protect privacy, the names have been changed.

The first interview was conducted with a representative of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The first question was a rather straightforward one: What is the Holy Spirit?. Father John simply replied: “He is God”. Having seen the surprise on my face, he decided to dwell on the concept of Trinity: “You see, we, Christians believe that Jesus Christ was a Son of God. This is true. This makes Him God Son. It is quite obvious that there is also God Father. You may wonder about the relationship between them. Well, the latter give birth to the former. But there is also the Holy Spirit. We believe that he is emanated from God Father as well”. As one can easily see, the minister who belongs to the Eastern Orthodox Church sees a great difference between the two actions: being generated from God Father and being emanated from Him. Afterwards I asked a rather logical question: “Should not people worship God Father then, instead of God Son and the Holy Spirit”. It is obvious that the priest answered in the following way: “No, of course they should not. God Father, just like God Son and the Holy Spirit are the three Persons of Holy Trinity”. Indeed, this connection between one being three and three being one is rather difficult to grasp for ordinary people, but Father John did not seem to have a problem with that. The later questions were focused on the function of the Holy Spirit. According to Father John, this Person of Trinity was responsible for many different miracles, like giving a person supernatural powers. However, it would not be wise to think of the Holy Spirit as some kind of a special force that provides people with something extraordinary.