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.

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 Spirit in Numbers 11

Pneuma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 340-343
Author(s):  
Roger D. Cotton
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Acts 2

Abstract Numbers 11 is a foundational passage for OT pneumatology and supports pentecostal theology and practice. There, God, through Moses, expressed his plan that all believers should be empowered for prophetic ministry by the Holy Spirit. That experience of the seventy elders involved a kind of prophesying that was probably praise and prayer in tongues, as in Acts 2.

Receptive Ecumenism and Discerning the Sensus Fidelium: Expanding the Categories for a Catholic Reception of Revelation

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ormond Rush
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Mutual Exchange ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Sensus Fidelium ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Way

The benefits of the approach of “receptive ecumenism” are becoming increasingly appreciated within ecumenical circles. A primary focus is the way a particular Christian tradition can learn from another and, in a mutual exchange of gifts, receive gifts that have not been part of one’s own tradition. This essay views this dynamic in terms of recognizing differing “senses of the faith” that the Holy Spirit has brought forth within the baptized of different churches. It proposes that Catholic discernment of the sensus fidelium, as presupposed in Lumen Gentium 12, should also include the sensus fidei of other Christians, and that ecumenical dialogues play a crucial role in that ecclesial discernment.

Providence, Power and the Holy Spirit

Horizons ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Anne E. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThis essay envisions the meaning of providence according to recent feminist and process theologies of power and attempts to distinguish the meaning of providence from the action of the Holy Spirit in our lives. It compares the classical meaning of providence with those elements in modern and contemporary thought that warrant changes in our understanding of these themes, while it maintains the continuity of Christian tradition. In doing so, it offers some reflection on the relationship between theology and spirituality, and suggests a new synthesis between the immanence and transcendence of God in the experience of Christians today. In light of the biblical idea of justice as right relations, the mystical and political are integrated.

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.

scholarly journals Veni, veni, o Oriens... die erediens as kommunikatiewe handeling gerig op oriëntering, uitdrukking, verandering en verbintenis

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Kloppers
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Expression Change ◽  
Symbolic Communication ◽  
Worship Service ◽  
Triune God ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Communicative Actions

Veni, veni, o Oriens... the worship service as communicative action aimed at orientation, expression, change and commitment Through symbolic communication the experience of faith can be brought about and the Christian tradition actively transmitted in a worship service. In this article it is argued that in the worship service faith is communicated through various communicative actions by means of which symbolic communication on all levels is established. The worship service itself is an encompassing communicative action aimed at orientation, expression, change and commitment. The Triune God is the foundation of the worship service and the point of orientation. The love and presence of Jesus Christ through the working of the Holy Spirit are the conditions under which the expression of faith takes place and all communicative actions become performative. Through these actions commitment is brought about, participants come to a new understanding of faith, and fundamental change is experienced.

Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit: The Promise of Pentecostal Ecclesiology

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark Pinnock
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Virginia Beach ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Institutional Dimension ◽  
The Church

AbstractIn another instance of a long and fruitful effort to engage and encourage Pentecostal theologians, appreciatively and constructively, in making their own distinctive contributions to the larger theological world, renowned evangelical theologian Clark Pinnock has here sketched a suggestive proposal for the construction of a distinctly Pentecostal ecclesiology. Originally presented as the keynote address at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA on March 11, 2005, this paper appears here as the featured dialogue piece followed by responses from three Pentecostal theologians, Frank D. Macchia, Terry L. Cross, and R. Hollis Gause. Pinnock’s proposal for a Pentecostal theology of the church is here outlined in terms of the following themes: (1) An Anointed Herald of God’s Kingdom, (2) A Trinitarian Society, (3) A Church Oriented to Mission, (4) A Continuing Charismatic Structure, and (5) An Institutional Dimension.

The Recovery of the Holy Spirit in Evangelical Theology

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Clark Pinnock
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Academic Theology ◽  
Evangelical Theology ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis article offers a positive overview of the resurgence of attention to the Holy Spirit in recent evangelical theology. Appreciation is registered for the reinvigorating effects of this development in the life of the church as well as in the work of academic theology, where fresh emphasis and perspective on the Spirit are treated in terms of their impact on each of the major theological loci. This concise summary of recent work on the Spirit draws together the insights of a number of theologians in relation to the author’s own widely regarded pneumatological study and provides a basis for some fresh suggestions on how to build upon the leads and gains that have been made.

Academic Theology in Pastoral Perspective

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen T. Charry
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Academic Theology

“In our secular age, guidance from any source but self is disdained, the notion of centering one's life in anything—perhaps especially God—appears a bit eccentric, and public discourse is dominated by anger and adversariness. In this atmosphere, Christianity constitutes a refreshing and needed alternative because it does not simply celebrate human life but seeks to transform human persons through the grace of God in Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit.”

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