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.

Baptist Worship in Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Lord's Supper ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Radical Reformation ◽  
Evangelistic Preaching ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Hymn Singing ◽  
Evangelical Theology ◽  
The Church

Baptists stand within the Free Church and Evangelical traditions. They baptize only those who profess personal faith, and they also give a high priority to evangelism. Although there is some variety around the world in this the fifth-largest Christian denomination, the main features of Baptist worship developed in Britain, where the Baptist story began. Emerging from the Radical Reformation at the beginning of the 17th century, British Baptists formed two main groups, each holding Calvinistic or Arminian theology, respectively. Both emphasized an ecclesiology in which the church was perceived to be a fellowship of believers and each rejected the baptism of infants. By the 19th century, most British Baptists held a common, though varied, evangelical theology, and this continues to characterize this denomination. The importance of scriptural preaching, extempore prayer, and the emergence of congregational hymn singing are all continuing features of Baptist worship. The core aspects of Baptist spirituality can be seen in their worship, including giving due attention to scripture and its relevant application for the life and witness of the church; the importance of the devotional life and an openness to the Holy Spirit, as seen in extempore prayer; emphasis on the church as a fellowship of believers, as expressed in the communal nature of the Eucharist celebrated as the Lord’s Supper; and the importance of personal faith and the mission of the church, embodied in the baptism of believers and evangelistic preaching.

scholarly journals Editorial

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Råmunddal
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Scandinavian Journal ◽  
Organisational Development ◽  
Academic Conference ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Academic Theology ◽  
The Church

The articles published in the first issue of Scandinavian Journal for Leadership and Theology (SJLT) all have their origins in the lectures held at the Nordic academic conference for practical theology, which took place in Gardermoen/Oslo on 13 – 14 June 2013. The conference’s goal was to contribute through academic theology to a greater understanding of the correlation between the person of the Holy Spirit and His influence in the Church, spirituality in a church context and the spiritual and organisational development of congregations. Of the seven lectures that are presented as peer-reviewed articles in SJTL 1-2014, three are in Swedish, three in Norwegian and one in English. All the articles have English abstracts. Seven of the lectures are published in this first issue of SJLT and more will be published in future issues.  

Schrift und Geist. Beiträge zur Wirkung des Wortes Gottes im Leben der Gemeinde Eberhard Hahn, hrsg. von Wolfgang Becker

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-232
Author(s):  
Jochen Eber
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
65Th Birthday ◽  
Content Type ◽  
P Content ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Evangelical Theology ◽  
The Church

<p content-type="flush left">Zusammenfassung <p content-type="flush left">Der schwäbische Theologe Eberhard Hahn ist als Dozent am Albrecht-Bengel-Haus in Tübingen und als Professor für Systematische Theologie in Erlangen bekannt. In der Aufsatzsammlung aus Anlass seines 65. Geburtstags sind Beiträge vereinigt, in denen sich Hahn mit grundlegenden Themen evangelischer Theologie beschäftigt: Heilige Schrift, Heiliger Geist und Kirche. Die gut verständlich verfassten Beiträge eignen sich besonders für Studierende der Theologie, die einen eigenständigen, biblisch-theologisch begründeten Standpunkt gewinnen wollen. <p content-type="flush left">Summary <p content-type="flush left">The Swabian theologian Eberhard Hahn is known as a lecturer at the Albrecht-Bengel-Haus in Tübingen and as a professor of systematic theology in Erlangen. This collection of essays on the occasion of his 65th birthday brings together contributions in which Hahn deals with fundamental topics of evangelical theology: Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit and the Church. The accessible contributions are particularly suitable for students of theology who want to achieve an independent, biblical-theologically reasoned point of view. <p content-type="flush left">Résumé <p content-type="flush left">Le théologien souabe Eberhard Hahn est connu comme enseignant à l’Albrecht-Bengel-Haus de Tübingen et professeur de théologie systématique à Erlangen. Ce recueil d’essais publié à l’occasion de son soixante-cinquième anniversaire réunit des articles dans lesquels Hahn aborde des thèmes essentiels de la théologie évangélique: l’Écriture sainte, le Saint-Esprit et l’Église. Ces contributions accessibles conviendront en particulier aux étudiants en théologie qui souhaitent se forger un point de vue indépendant, élaboré sur le fondement d’une théologie biblique.

Eating with penitence: An essay on the local church eating responsibly

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-463
Author(s):  
David W. Priddy
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Industrial Agriculture ◽  
Specific Program ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Local Congregations ◽  
Ecological Concern ◽  
The Church

In this essay, I pose the question, “How might local congregations participate in food reform and agricultural renewal?” Given the problems of industrial agriculture and the wider ecological concern, this question is pressing. Instead of advocating a specific program, I focus on how the Church might address this question while keeping its commitment to being a repentant Church. First, I discuss the significance of attention and particularly the habit of attending to the Word and Sacrament. This posture, I argue, maintains the Church’s integrity, preventing it from merely branding itself or relying on its own resources. Second, I briefly explore the association of eating with the mission of the Church in the New Testament, highlighting the repeated theme of judgment and call to humility in the context of eating. Third, I draw out the importance of continual remorse over sin. This attitude is essential to the Church’s vocation and rightly appears in many historic liturgies. I argue that this posture should extend to the question of eating responsibly. Penitence demonstrates the Church’s relationship to the wider world and testifies to the source of the Church’s own life, the Holy Spirit, who does the work of renewal.

Yahweh, Women, and the Trinity

1975 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-242
Author(s):  
Jay G. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

“Might it not be possible, just at this moment when the fortunes of the church seem to be at low ebb, that we may be entering a new age, an age in which the Holy Spirit will become far more central to the faith, an age when the third person of the Trinity will reveal to us more fully who she is?”

The Church and the Development of Doctrine

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Chan
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Church

AbstractDoctrines are the authoritative teachings of the Church, yet the modern church is hampered by its inability to speak authoritatively even to its own members on matters of doctrine. One reason is that doctrines are widely perceived as archaic and fixed formulations with little significance for the present day. True doctrines, in fact, are constantly developing as the Church moves towards eschatological fulfillment. Yet for doctrines to develop properly there needs to be a proper ecclesiology. The Church is not an entity that God brought into being to return creation to its original purpose after the Fall; rather, the Church is prior to creation, chosen in Christ before the creation of the world (Eph. 1.4). It is a divine-humanity, ontologically linked to Christ the Head. It is the living Body of Christ, the totus Christus.Within the continuing life of prayer and worship, the Church’s doctrines are re-enacted, renewed and developed. These acts constitute the ecclesial experience or the living tradition. The living tradition is the transmission and development of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the on-going practices of the Church through the power of the Holy Spirit. The coming of the Spirit upon the Church at Pentecost is not just to enable the Church to preach the gospel but to constitute the Church as part of the gospel itself. That is to say, the gospel story includes the story of the Spirit in the Church. The third person of the Godhead is revealed as such in his special relation to the Church. The Church, therefore, could be called the ‘polity of the Spirit’, that is, the public square in which the Spirit is especially at work to bring God’s ultimate purpose to fulfillment. There is, therefore, no separation between ecclesiology and pneumatology. They are necessary for maintaining the living tradition and ensuring the healthy development of doctrine until the Church attains unity of the faith. Pentecostals who see the Pentecost event as the distinctive mark of their identity have a special role to play: by becoming more truly catholic in their ecclesiology, they become more truly Pentecostal. This accords well with their early ecumenical instinct.

Eugene IV and the First Dissolution of the Council of Basle

1967 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loy Bilderback
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Essential Singularity ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Prime Determinant ◽  
The Will ◽  
Great Schism ◽  
The Church ◽  
Will Of God ◽  
Divine Guidance

The Council of Basle was officially charged with three basic concerns: the reform of the Church in head and members; the extirpation of heresy, particularly Bohemian Hussitism; and the attainment of peace among Christian Princes. Yet, the Council was most absorbed by, and is most remembered for, a fourth, unscheduled concern. From its outset, the prime determinant of the actions and decisions of the Council proved to be the problem of living and working with the Papacy. In retrospect it is easy to see that this problem was insoluble. One could not expect the efficient functioning of the Church if there was doubt or confusion about the will of God, and the presence of such doubt and confusion was certain so long as even two agencies could gain support for their contentions that they were directly recipient to the Holy Spirit. Singularity of headship was absolutely necessary to the orderly processes of the Church. Yet the contradiction of this essential singularity was implicit at Constance in the accommodation, by one another of the curialists, the protagonists of an absolute, papal monarchy, and the conciliarists, who sought divine guidance through periodic General Councils. This accommodation, in turn, was necessary if the doubt and confusion engendered by the Great Schism was to be resolved. At Basle, this contradiction was wrought into a conflict which attracted a variety of opportunists who could further their ancillary or extraneous ends through a posture of service to one side or the other, and in so doing they obfuscated the issues and prolonged the struggle.

John Carroll and the Appeal to Evidence: A Pragmatic Defense of Principle

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-309
Author(s):  
Joseph M. McShane
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Active Intervention ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
New Republic ◽  
John Carroll ◽  
The Church

Throughout his career John Carroll supported the American religious settlement with surprising and consistent enthusiasm. Indeed, his enthusiasm for the religious liberty of the new republic seemed to be boundless. Thus he never tired of celebrating and advertising its benefits. He assured American Catholics that it was “a signal instance of [God's] mercy” and a product of the active intervention of Divine Providence and the Holy Spirit, who have “tutored the minds of men” in such a way that Catholics could now freely worship God according to the “dictates of conscience.” Flushed with pride, he even predicted that if America were wise enough to abide by the terms of this providential arrangement, the nation would become a beacon to the world, proving that “general and equal toleration…is the most effectual method to bring all denominations of Christians to an unity of faith.” Finally, confident that the extraordinary freedom accorded American Catholics would make the American church “the most flourishing portion of the church,” he urged European states and churches to follow America's inspired lead.

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