Abstract: The logic of universalism could at a superficial level lead one to ask why there is any need for faith. This chapter proposes a way through this seeming contradiction by considering the problem from the perspective of pneumatology. This helps to avoid speaking of salvation in the simple binary opposition of saved-damned. The Spirit allows for the continued particularity of the Christian and the non-Christian while retaining the possibility of universal salvation. Through the establishment of the church and the Christian by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the Christian and the non-Christian are enabled to be united in Christ precisely as Christian and non-Christian. The Spirit allows for human and Christian particularity without limiting God's work of salvation. The Spirit ever deepens God's love for humanity in the church and the individual lives of Christians without in any way detracting from the love of God for all creation.

Keywords: universalism, particularity, Holy Spirit, pneumatology, faith, church, binary,