From Ecstasy To Ecstasis: a Reflection On Prophetic and Pentecostal Ecstasy in the Light of John the Baptizer

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Christopher Dube
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

AbstractFor much of the twentieth century and from its earliest roots, Pentecostal ism has been understood and interpreted as grounded upon the ecstatic founding of the Church (Pentecost). While this grounding of faith in an event of God encounter engenders an openness to the Holy Spirit, it also places emphasis on spiritual experience rather than on the form of life that facilitates such experience. This misplacement of emphasis easily leads to unbalanced forms of the Christian life. This paper, using primarily the exam ple of John the Baptizer as prophet, is an attempt to recover a more fluid and open Pentecostal dynamic that remains grounded in a life centered in God (ecstasis), while at the same time remaining open to moments of God encounter (ecstasy).

Formation in Christian Worship

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-184
Author(s):  
Gifford A. Grobien
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Lord's Supper ◽  
Union With Christ ◽  
Marie Chauvet ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Christian Worship ◽  
The Church

In conversation with Oswald Bayer, Bernd Wannenwetsch, and Louis-Marie Chauvet, this chapter explains comprehensively the power of Christian worship ethically to form Christians in union with Christ. Language and ritual theories explain the power of speech and ritual to institute forms or orders of life. Christians who have been united to Christ through God’s justifying word are inaugurated into the ecclesial form of life. In this communion, they are formed by the Holy Spirit to act in accordance with the speech of God and the institution of the Church. Furthermore, as grace-filled speech, preaching and the sacraments form Christians also by the supernatural “inscription” of the Holy Spirit. The particular power of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper to unite Christians to Christ and to each other, and to form Christians ethically, is explored in Luther’s and Philip Melancthon’s writings.

Pentecostals and Charismatics in America

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-260
Author(s):  
Cecil M. Robeck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
First Century ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Tradition ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Christian Family ◽  
The Church

This chapter traces Pentecostal and related congregations, churches, denominations, and organizations that stem from the beginning of the twentieth century. They identify with activities at Pentecost described in Acts 2 and in the exercise of charisms in 1 Corinthians 12–14. Each of them highlights is the significance of a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit leading to a transformed life. These often interrelated organizations and movements have brought great vitality to the Church worldwide for over one hundred years, and together, they constitute as much as 25 per cent of the world’s Christians. This form of spirituality is unique over the past 500 years, since it may be found in virtually every historic Christian family/tradition, and in most churches of the twenty-first century.

The Doctrine of Appropriation as an Interpretative Framework for Karl Barth's Pneumatology of the Church Dogmatics

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-290
Author(s):  
Adam McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Interpretative Framework

Although Karl Barth is widely recognised as the initiator of the renewal of trinitarian theology in the twentieth century, his theology of the Church Dogmatics has been strongly criticised for its inadequate account of the work of the Holy Spirit. This author argues that the putative weakness of Barth's pneumatology should be reconsidered in light of his doctrine of appropriation. Barth employs the doctrine of appropriation as a hermeneutical procedure, within his doctrine of the Trinity, for bringing to speech the persons of the Trinity in their inseparable distinctiveness. It is argued that the doctrine of appropriation provides a sound interpretative framework for his pneumatology of the Church Dogmatics.

Divine Action in Symeon the New Theologian

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Spiritual Theology ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Divine Forgiveness ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines the spiritual theology of Symeon the New Theologian. It examines Symeon’s thought on the role of human agents in providing forgiveness of sins in the life of the church, ordination in priesthood, divine equipping of the laity to speak on God’s behalf to those seeking salvation, and the deeper questions these questions raise about divine action in salvation. The questions about the mediation of divine forgiveness among the laity inevitably raise questions about the nature of the action of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life, whether one can know that God is present in the personal life of the believer, and how these claims can be defended epistemologically.

scholarly journals Communio und Eucharistie. Ekklesiologische Parallelen bei Dumitru Stăniloae und Joseph Ratzinger

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-101
Author(s):  
Constantin Prihoancă
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Communion Ecclesiology ◽  
Catholic Churches ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article is a critical engagement with D. Stăniloae’s and J. Ratzinger’s ecclesiological thought as shaped by the description of church as the body of Christ and the Trinitarian roots of this ecclesiology. Starting from practical problems of prayer and living a Christian life, the authors argue that God’s relationship to the Christian community has primacy over God’s relationship to individual believers. When one conceives of the Christian community as being the body of Christ, one can uphold the elevated Christian ideal of Eucharist Communio without making it unattainable. The authors show that the being of the church is given to the Christian community not as a possession or property, but as a task to be fulfilled through the power of Christ and of the Holy Spirit. One can discover that in becoming the church, the Christian community is elevated to the Trinitarian life in communion. Communion ecclesiology has the potential to bridge the divide between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.

Ecumenical Connections across Time: Medieval Franciscans as a Proto-Pentecostal Movement?

Pneuma ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Gros
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
Long Course ◽  
The Church

Abstract In the long course of Christian history there have been many expressions of the action of the Holy Spirit in renewing the Christian Church through a variety of renewal movements. Two such movements are the twentieth-century Pentecostal movement and the thirteenth-century Franciscan movement. While there is no specific historical link one with the other, there are resources in the older movement, with its concern for direct human experience of Christ, its return to biblical poverty, a hope of renewing the church by a restoration of biblical holiness, its experience of gradually integrating its radical view of the end of time with the institutional church, and its impulsive missionary outreach, that offer many lessons for the newer movement as it serves worldwide Christianity.

scholarly journals Iconostases of the Russian abroad: monk Grigory Krug

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (120) ◽  
pp. 168-174
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Yureva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church ◽  
Final Work

The article for the first time made an analytical review of the iconostasis work of the icon painter of the Russian Diaspora of the mid-twentieth century, Grigory Ivanovich (Fr. Grigory) Krug. The author notes the wide fame of the master with insufficient study of his heritage and proposes to connect the studied cultural phenomenon (the complex of iconostases of Fr. Grigory Krug) with the historical dynamics of culture, where the icon receives a new understanding and a new stage of development in the context of emigration culture. Correlating the work of the icon painter with the context of the era and culture as a whole, the author concludes that the new iconographic language of Fr. Grigory Krug is unique not only among works created among emigration, but also for Orthodox religious art of the twentieth century as a whole. The iconostases of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Klamar are considered in detail; 1st and 2nd iconostases of the church of the Three Sanctuary metochion in Paris, church of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Mongeron, the church in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God «All Sorrow Joy» in Nuazi-le-Gran, the iconostasis and painting of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the convent in Muazn, the icons and iconostasis of the main church of the Holy Spirit Monastery in Le Menil-Saint-Denis, near Paris. For the first time, the iconostases created by Grigori Krug are presented in the context of the transformation of artistic approaches, which change in accordance with the formation of the theological views of the author. In his final work the iconostasis of the Holy Spirit Monastery, the master was able to harmoniously combine carefully restored canonical techniques in creating icons with the creative impulses of the artist of the twentieth century.

Salvation, Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and Experience of God

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
William J. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
Union With Christ ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Experience Of God ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Church

This chapter begins by charting the failure of Herbert Asbury’s conversion, using this as a point of departure to review two classical ways to provide a taxonomy of divine action for the Christian life, especially the experience of the Holy Spirit. The Christian tradition imparts a variety of concepts like sanctification, theosis, holiness, baptism in the Spirit, and union with Christ to speak of the experience of the Christian believer. Furthermore, the tradition speaks of the action of the church and the action of other believers on Christians. By attending to the concepts of divine and human agency, this chapter provides a way forward through this debate.

Mediation in the Christian Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Philip LeMasters
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Prayer Of The Heart ◽  
The Church

Abstract Orthodox theology teaches that people may participate in the fruits of Jesus Christ’s mediation between God and humankind. The Holy Spirit enables people to become radiant with the divine energies as they embrace Christ’s fulfillment of the human person in the likeness of God. The Theotokos, the saints, and spiritual elders play particular roles in interceding for people to share more fully in the life of Christ. The eucharistic worship of the church, marriage and the other sacraments, the prayer of the heart, ministry to the poor, and forgiveness of enemies provide opportunities for people to be transformed by the grace mediated to humanity by Jesus Christ. Such mediation extends to every dimension of the human person, including the physical body, as indicated by veneration of the relics of the saints and the sacramental nature of Orthodox worship.

The Legacy of Reuben Archer Torrey III

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-271
Author(s):  
Joon-Sik Park
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Korean Christianity ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Transformative Impact ◽  
The Church

Reuben Archer Torrey III, a notable missionary to South Korea in the second half of the twentieth century, was deeply committed to demonstrating true Christianity and making it a reality in Korea through the ministry of Jesus Abbey, an ecumenical community that he and his wife, Jane, founded in 1965. Torrey’s theology and practice of Christian mission have had a transformative impact on Korean Christianity and still have much to contribute to the understanding of the nature and calling of the church. This article examines Torrey’s theology of the Holy Spirit, his view of biblical economic justice, and his understanding of Christian community.

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