Subject to Spirit: The Promise of Pentecostal Feminist Pneumatology and Its Witness to Systematics

Pneuma ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Janice Rees
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Intimate Relation ◽  
And Gender

Abstract The emergence of feminist Pentecostal studies poses a sharp challenge to both systematic theology and gender studies. The experiences of Pentecostal women, often in non-Western contexts, confront common assumptions regarding women’s ritual experience and the emergence of subjectivity. This paper will argue for an integration of insights from feminist Pentecostalism into the discipline of systematic theology. I explore the emergence of subjectivity in Pentecostal women in relation to the Holy Spirit and argue that a Pentecostal and feminist approach to pneumatology brings the critical elements together. This produces a clearer vision of the intimate relation between the doctrine of God and an embodied community of women (and men), thereby creating room within the systematic discipline to explore the boundaries of subjectivity itself.

scholarly journals Discursive investigation into John’s internalised spirit identity and its implication

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zorodzai Dube
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
African Context ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Johannine Community

What does it mean to live in a society where everything good is located within one ethnicity, and geography? In reading the gospel of John, one gets the impression that faithful disciples, the Holy Spirit and morality are exclusively located within the Johannine community and can only permeate to the outside through the good work of the insiders – the disciples. Everything is asymmetric – morality, ideal disciples and good virtues – these originate from within John’s community. Outside John’s community, it is darkness that awaits the illuminating lights of John’s disciples, without which they will remain in perpetual darkness. Despite recent theories that position John as a missionary and an open community, still it does not remove the asymmetric nature of the gospel. The study builds on views inspired by scholars such as Jonathan Draper (1992:13) to argue that John used the Holy Spirit to naturalise identities. From this perspective and if read from the South African context of racism, ethnicity and gender, John makes the reader think about the consequences and implications of exclusive social boundaries.Keywords: Spirit, identity, boundary making, modernity, Social cohesion

Experiencing the Spirit

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-79
Author(s):  
Simeon Zahl
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Temporal Specificity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit

This chapter argues that a constructive recovery of the category of “experience” in Christian theology is best accomplished through the lens of the theology of the Holy Spirit. Thinking about experience in terms of the work of the Holy Spirit helps specify what we mean when we talk about Christian “experience,” while also avoiding the problems that arise in appeals to more general concepts of “religious experience.” The chapter shows how a pneumatologically informed theology of experience draws attention to a problematic tendency towards abstraction and disembodiment in much modern systematic theology. It then argues that the work of the Spirit is likely to take forms that are “practically recognizable” in the lives of Christians in the world, exhibiting temporal specificity as well as affective and emotional impact, and that pneumatologies that cannot take account of such practically recognizable effects are deficient.

The Sanctifying Work of the Holy Spirit: Revisiting Alston’s Interpersonal Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 112-130
Author(s):  
Steven L Porter ◽  
Brandon Rickabaugh
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Philosophical Investigation ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
William Alston ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Interpersonal Model

Of the various loci of systematic theology that call for sustained philosophical investigation, the doctrine of sanctification stands out as a prime candidate.  In response to that call, William Alston developed three models of the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit: the fiat model, the interpersonal model, and the sharing model.  In response to Alston’s argument for the sharing model, this paper offers grounds for a reconsideration of the interpersonal model.  We close with a discussion of some of the implications of one’s understanding of the transforming work of the Holy Spirit for practical Christian spirituality.

Wolfgang Vondey’s Structure for Systematic Pentecostal Theology

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Narrative Theology ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Full Gospel ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
Spirit Christology

Wolfgang Vondey’s Pentecostal Theology: Living the Full Gospel is a tour de force in Pentecostal systematic theology. It is also the most articulate statement of the fivefold gospel’s power to explain the impulses of past Pentecostal spirituality and its constructive potential for future Pentecostal discourse. Combining both traditional and innovative systematic loci, Vondey’s project shows great promise for the enterprise of christologically oriented narrative theology. One looming question is whether the christocentrism of the full gospel can bear adequate witness to some of the details of Spirit christology. That is, can the full gospel, with its emphasis on Jesus actively bestowing the Holy Spirit on creatures, give proper place to Jesus passively receiving the Holy Spirit from the Father, without the full gospel’s structure undergoing fundamental transformation? While some ambiguities remain in Vondey’s attempts to employ both the full gospel and elements of Spirit christology in the same theological paradigm, he takes long strides towards integrating these two themes that have often competed with each other for space in Pentecostal theology.

The Johannine Logic of Augustine's Trinity: A Dogmatic Sketch

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan F. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
De Trinitate ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Relationship Of

This article follows recent scholarship in identifying a robustly pro-Nicene trinitarianism in Augustine's De Trinitate. In particular, a “Johannine logic” is identified and traced as an exegetical basis for his dogmatic articulation of the doctrine of God. This logic unfolds in the Pater–Filius relationship of the Son's begetting, incarnation, and christological forms as “servant” and “God.” Finally, the enlightening love of the Holy Spirit completes Augustine's Trinity.

Theology of Religions, Universal Salvation, and the Holy Spirit

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najeeb George Awad
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Universal Salvation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Triune God ◽  
The Holy Spirit

AbstractThis article is an attempt at viewing the doctrine of salvation from a trinitarian point of view by shifting the focus of the inclusivist theology of religion from a traditional christocentric version into a version that, rather than only being linked to christology, is substantially linked and fundamentally based on a trinitarian doctrine of God. By this focus, I attempt at promoting a theology of religion that is based on the conviction that the non-christian religions can experience God's salvation by means of the particular work of the Spirit and not only by the work of the Son. The purpose is to take christocentric inclusivism into a more biblically comprehensive pneumatico-trinitarian attestation. In the Bible, the saviour of the world is the triune God as the Father, who reconciles the world to Himself particularly by virtue of His Son but universally by virtue of His Holy Spirit.

Friedrich Schleiermacher: Pentecostal Friend or Foe?

Ecclesiology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel D. Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Academic Theology

Although it is rapidly growing worldwide, Pentecostalism is a relatively young Christian tradition and, in consequence, has not yet developed a thorough systematic theology. The most unifying aspects of Pentecostalism tend to be its emphasis on the Holy Spirit and its commitment to oppose what are deemed to be inappropriate and heretical theologies. While there are many theologies and theologians that Pentecostals resist, Friedrich D.E. Schleiermacher is almost universally opposed due to what Western Pentecostal theology views as his liberal, subjective, and academic theology. In this essay, I argue that these claims are misguided and that there is important common ground between Schleiermacher and Western Pentecostal theology, as seen through Schleiermacher’s theology on redemption, ecclesiology, and preaching. Thus Western Pentecostal theology can confidently adopt Schleiermacher as a theological ally, thereby allowing his theology to inform Pentecostal theology as it continues to develop.

Robert Jenson’s Pneumatological Contribution: An Engagement

Pro Ecclesia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-192
Author(s):  
John W Hoyum
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Narrative Frame

I argue that Robert Jenson’s pneumatology, as it is developed in his Systematic Theology, secures the personhood of the Holy Spirit by emphasizing the narrative and eschatological dimensions of God’s being. While Jenson successfully eludes the problem of abstraction implicit in many classic pneumatological approaches, I suggest that his reconstructed pneumatology fails to go far enough to personalize the Spirit in narrative concrescence. To push Jenson’s insight to a further, yet more salutary, extent, I enlist the pneumatology of Martin Luther, whose understanding of proclamation in word and sacrament provides an adequately historical, eschatological, narrative frame for a fully personal account of the Holy Spirit.

Pneumatology, Participation, and Load-Bearing Structures

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Joanna Leidenhag ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Load Bearing ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Equal Concern

As Oliver D. Crisp’s Analyzing Doctrine sets out the major moves of a future analytic systematic theology, this response worries about the lack of close attention to work of the Holy Spirit. It is argued that this generates an unhelpful (and unintended) tendency for key theological concepts to collapse into one another. First, the concepts of theosis, participation, union, conformity, and sanctification appear indistinguishable. Second, Crisp portrays monofocal attention to the union of incarnation, without equal concern for that additional complementary way that humanity is united to God, namely, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

The Cinderella of Theology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit

1957 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
G. J. Sirks
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit

More than once the doctrine of the Spirit (Pneumatology) has been called the Cinderella of Theology. If this was so in the past, and is perhaps still, it now requires our full attention. At the risk of viewing the situation through ‘continental’ eyes, but hoping you will recognize this, I would say that the nineteenth century, impressed by the advance of science, confronted theology in the first place with problems raised by natural science. Its first question concerned the nature of God, especially in connection with creation. Scientific historical inquiry paid attention to the Bible, and in the New Testament focussed its interest upon the question of the historical Jesus. This work culminated and came to a temporary halt in Albert Schweitzer's, The Quest of the Historical Jesus. A revival of Systematic Theology and Dogmatics followed, and in the opinion of the dogmatists the connecting lines between theology viewed from a cosmic standpoint and the Gospel were too long. The same thing was seen happening in the historical study of religions which came to cover an ever-widening field. On flle other hand, however, they could not be satisfied with a ‘life of Jesus,’ so that Christology began to occupy a central place which it has held during the last few decades. And, if Pneumatology received any attention at all, its allotted place was small.

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