Karlson on the Feast of Pentecost

Vox Nova's Henry Karlson beautifully reflects upon the meaning of Pentecost and its significance for language, hermeneutics, and communication. Money quotes:

Postmodernism radically proves the truth of Babel; because of it, Christians, far from rejecting its insights, should learn from the postmoderns and how they clarify the human situation and the difficulty we must face.

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What makes Pentecost special, what makes it one of the key elements of salvation history, is that the Holy Spirit, who once spoke impersonally through prophets, is now given to us in such a way that we know the Spirit as the Spirit of Unity and Love. We know the Spirit - not just as an impersonal force guiding human history - but as a person, as one of the Holy Trinity.

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It is communion with the Spirit which allows us to overcome the difficulties of language, for it is that one Spirit, who is in all of us, who unites us and is capable of overcoming the barriers of sin.

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It is in the Spirit, the Spirit of life that gives us true life, a life we experience as much as our self has been overcome, that we encounter the Word behind all words, the Truth behind all expressions of the truth.

Worth the full read. It's one of the best blog posts I've read.