Double Procession

No generation ought to be determined by the spirit of the sons. As a matter of simple fact, the world is never occupied by a single generation. For a generation to be healthy, the spirit of the sons must mingle with the spirit of the fathers. The Spirit must proceed from both the Father and the Son.

Modern history has seen many denials of this cultural double procession: Youth culture is the spirit of the son without the father. Educational experiments (or church youth groups) that treat teachers and students as members of a single generation is a denial that the spirit of a generation must be both paternal and filial. Telling students to make up their own minds is Trinitarian heresy, a denial that the Spirit is the Spirit of the Father as well as the Son. Patriarchalism is a denial in the other direction, denying that the Spirit is the Spirit of the Son as well as the Father.