Ern Baxter on Systemizing the Holy Spirit

"It was not until the beginning of the fourth century that the Christian community got around to any extensive definition of the Holy Spirit. It is also interesting that by this time the supernatural and charismatic manifestation of the Holy Spirit had receded considerably. This shows the danger of reducing God, Christian experience and even the Bible to systematic definitions suitable to intellectual forms while not retaining vital relationship to God through the Holy Spirit".

Ern Baxter - "Who is the Holy Spirit?" - New Wine Magazine - November 1974 - CGM Ministries - (p5).