Feminizing the Spirit, by implication, can legitimate masculinizing the Father and the Son, and so calling the Spirit “she” inadvertently strengthens the idolatrous idea that God is a gendered being, like you and me. A feminized Spirit may also support cultural stereotypes about what it means to be masculine or feminine in the first place. Is “nurture” really a feminine quality? Does feminizing the nurturing Spirit reinforce the idea that it is? Most problematic, this strategy introduces division into the Trinity.
