Organising Spirit suggests that Christian pneumatology written under such economic and cultural conditions perpetuates this anti-institutionalism, associating the Holy Spirit's work in the world primarily with personal transformation, community formation, and movement politics.

After the global economic, health, and climate shocks of the past decade, political theorists are beginning to insist again on the importance of institutions in sustaining political freedoms and just distributions of goods and productive capacity. Pitts furthers this argument through discussion of three images of the Holy Spirit as divine Organizer: the Spirit hovering over primeval chaos to bring about life-giving complexity, coming alongside or “doubling” anti-imperial liberation organizing to conjure freedom, and sanctifying feminist radical reform to nurture global bonds of care. Anabaptist, postliberal, and liberation theologies are discussed throughout the book, both as symptoms of neoliberal anti-institutionalism and as resources for an alternative pneumatological imagination for global solidarity after neoliberalism.

Organizing Spirit challenges readers to participate in the work of the Holy Spirit by taking the risk of getting involved in the work of global institutions.