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Testing Ecstasy
FREDERICK
J. GAISER
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Pastors and Christian teachers everywhere will have as one of their tasks helping people recognize and name the work of the Spirit in their lives. Shall we bid them seek the spectacular, or shall we suggest they heed Mother Saint-Raphaël: “And let us remember that sainthood has little to do with the preternatural but a great deal to do with the simple day-to-day practice of the Christian
virtues”? Not an either/or, no doubt, as with so many things.... Finally, like the Spirit itself, we will want to point them to Christ and the gospel, the mystery made
flesh.
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| The 2002-2003 Word & World
Lecture
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The Lively Work of the Spirit in the Reformation
JANE
DEMPSEY DOUGLASS |
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Though comparatively little attention has been paid to the Reformers’ understanding of the Holy Spirit, only the confident certainty of the Spirit’s working in their lives gave them the courage to challenge so fundamentally the errors they saw in the church of their day.
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| The 2003 Essay Prize for
Doctoral Candidates |
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God against Us and for Us: Preaching Jesus in the Spirit
LEOPOLDO
A. SÁNCHEZ M. |
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Classical Logos christology strives to protect Jesus’ divine equality with God and the unity of his person; it remains an ideal theology for explanation, but not for proclamation. A Spirit christology that aims at crucifying and raising sinners with Christ will better serve the theologian as preacher.
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The Work of the Holy Spirit
in Luke-Acts
MAX
TURNER |
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The majority opinion of present scholarship argues that the Spirit in Luke-Acts was granted to those already saved, an added blessing empowering believers for service and mission. But this divides too sharply between soteriology and missiology. Keeping together salvation and witness is one of the cardinal contributions of Luke’s theology.
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Holy Spirit and Holy Communion
MICHAEL
WELKER |
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The Holy Spirit keeps, saves, and elevates us, making us one while preserving essential and legitimate differences. The work of the Holy Spirit is revealed in the biblical witness and in the regular observance of the Lord’s Supper.
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Thomas F. Torrance on the Holy Spirit
ELMER M. COLYER |
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Thomas Torrance offers a doctrine of the Holy Spirit that is not abstract but evangelical and pastoral. In the Holy Spirit, the transcendent God is pleased to be closer to us than we are to ourselves, and all for our salvation.
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“What are we here to
teach you, Mum?”: Mutuality and the Holy Spirit from a Feminist Maternal Perspective
NANCY M. VICTORIN-VANGERUD
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Recent newer models of family life, from a feminist perspective, influence our models of life in God’s Spirit. The Holy Spirit cultivates mutuality in relationships, rather than conformity and submission.
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African Initiated Churches of the Spirit and Pneumatology
ALLAN ANDERSON
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African theology has pointed to the African Initiated Churches as the “raw material” for a contextual theology in Africa. The African Spirit churches retain much in biblical pneumatology that Western churches have missed.
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Resources
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What Theologians Are Saying
about the Holy Spirit
LEE
E. SNOOK |
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In this article, Professor Snook provides a useful and thorough review of literature on the Holy Spirit.
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The End of Religion: The Beginning of Faith
NED P. WISNEFSKE
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In a time with much emphasis on spirituality and on humans as religious beings, a reconsideration of Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity is warranted. It may be necessary to set aside religion in order to make room for faith. Faith may have more kinship with unbelief than with religion.
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Face to Face: Politics in
the Pulpit? |
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No! A Sermon Must Do More
GRACIA GRINDAL
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Yes! Because God Loves the World
DAVID J. LOSE
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Texts in Context:
Living as Gods on Our Skin:
The Vigil of Pentecost and Pentecost Sunday (John 7:37-39)
DAVID E. FREDRICKSON
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What will it mean to “thirst” for Jesus? The “thirst” spoken of in John 7 is much more passionate than we have been trained to imagine. Thirst brings about fantasy. Fantasy takes me out of my everyday existence and opens me to the possibility that things are not as they appear to be.
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Reviews
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Old Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors, by Douglas Stuart
MARK HILLMER
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Paul in the Roman World: The Conflict at
Corinth, by Robert M. Grant
ARLAND J. HULTGREN
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The Imaginative World of the
Reformation, by Peter Matheson
ROBERT BRUSIC
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A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith Is Dying & How a New Faith Is
Born, by John Shelby Spong
LEE E. SNOOK
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Christian Faith and Religious Diversity: Mobilization for the Human
Family, ed. by John B. Cobb, Jr.
ALAN L. CHAN
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Doing Justice: Congregations and
Community Organizing, by Dennis A. Jacobsen
RANDY A. NELSON
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Moving beyond Church Growth: An Alternative Vision for
Congregations, by Mark A. Olson
PAUL E. LUTTER
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