[EDITORS' NOTE.-At the time of his sudden death in 1968, Joseph Haroutunian was at work on a major historical and constructive reinterpretation of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Had the study reached completion, it would have summed up many years of the author's theological reflection. Extensive manuscript materials in Haroutunian's own handwriting, consisting either of lecture notes or of drafts specially written, have been assembled from the literary remains and incorporated into a "Haroutunian Archive" in the Joseph Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago. In the judgment of those who have examined the archive, there would be no possibility of preparing the materials for the kind of book Haroutunian had envisaged. However, to bring the manuscripts to the attention of those who knew him and of future students who might wish to study his ideas further, two excerpts are offered here from what was plainly designed as a draft for the opening chapter, which would have taken up in detail the "model of the two hands of God" proposed by Haroutunian in an article published posthumously. (See "Spirit, Holy Spirit, Spiritism," in A Dictionary of Christian Theology, ed. Alan Richardson [London: SCM Press, 1969], PP318-27.) It will be understood that the manuscript from which the excerpts are taken remains an unpolished draft.]