The Spirit, Change, and Healing

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 7-28
Author(s):  
Edward Decker ◽  
Bill Buker ◽  
Jeffrey Lamp
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Counseling Experience ◽  
The Way

Spirit-centered counseling is an approach to counseling that makes full use of Spirit-centered spirituality as well as techniques and interventions used within Spirit-centered faith groups. An emphasis is always on the importance of being aware of, and experiencing, the Spirit and utilizing this awareness within the counseling endeavor. Three orienting assumptions are delineated to provide direction for the specific practices and methods of Spirit-centered counseling that prepare the way for Spirit-directed changes. Of special importance are the pneumatological imagination, Holy Spirit empowerment, and the development of a trialogical encounter, within which the counselor and the person seeking counseling experience the immanent nature of God through the Spirit’s presence in the counseling endeavor.

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.

The Divine Trinity

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
William J. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Attributes Of God ◽  
Vision Of God ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
The Way

The Christian vision of God is that God is three Persons in one Substance. This vision went beyond Scripture in order to do justice to Jewish monotheism, encounters with Jesus as an agent of divine action, and personal and corporate experiences of the Holy Spirit. Objections based on entanglement with Greek metaphysics and on certain feminist claims about male language fail. Loss of the Trinity involves serious impoverishment of the life and work of the church. Its continued embrace prepares the way for the exploration of the attributes of God.

scholarly journals Relationships: Discipleship that Promotes Another Kind of Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
Trevor Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Acid Test ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
The Way

The acid test of the authentic Christ-following life is linked to a steady growth in compassionate caring validated by the way Christians care and value the ones closest to them. Ministers of spiritual formation need a practical theology for becoming Christ-like in compassionate caring thus announcing salvation offered by Christ as another kind of life, especially in its relational aspects, which generates a lasting transformation that lets go of deception and, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, fosters the growth of authentic beings from the inside out.

The Meaning of Wisdom in James: Examination of a Hypothesis

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Kirk
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Epistle Of James ◽  
The Way

The following essay is an attempt to examine the manner in which the writer of the Epistle of James uses the concept of Wisdom; and to study the suggestion that the way in which he uses it is more or less interchangeable with that in which other writers of the New Testament use the concept of the Holy Spirit.

scholarly journals Omnipresence, Indwelling, and the Second-Personal

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonore Stump
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Mind Reading ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Way

The claim that God is maximally present is characteristic of all three major monotheisms. In this paper, I explore this claim with regard to Christianity. First, God’s omnipresence is a matter of God’s relations to all space at all times at once, because omnipresence is an attribute of an eternal God. In addition, God is also present with and to a person. The assumption of a human nature ensures that God is never without the ability to be present with human persons in the way mind-reading enables; and, in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, God is present in love.

scholarly journals Information Duties Stemming from the Insurance Distribution Directive as an Example of Faulty Application of the Principle of Proportionality

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-54
Author(s):  
Marta Ostrowska
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Member States ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Principle Of Proportionality ◽  
Proportionality Test ◽  
Proportionality Principle ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

AbstractIDD directive constitutes a piece of EU primary legislation and therefore it is obliged to respect the legal principles ruling the way in which EU acts towards the Member States, among which proportionality principle is of special importance. A legal act complies with the principle of proportionality if the measures adopted by the EU do not exceed the limits of what is appropriate and necessary to attain the objectives legitimately pursued by the legislation in question. According to IDD’s recitals, the measures adopted therein are proportional to the aim pursued by the IDD, i.e. customer protection. However, a live discussion boosted over the focal point of the IDD, i.e. a wide range of information duties, may lead to different conclusions and thereby put proportionality of the IDD in doubts. To verify this thesis, the author attempts to carry out the ‘proportionality test’ of the discussed information duties.

scholarly journals Die Heilige Gees en die Skriflesing in die samekoms van die gemeente

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. De Klerk
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Way

The Holy Spirit and Scripture-reading in the gathering of the congregation The realisation of the presence of God in the gathering of the congregation is often hampered by the lack of emphasis on the communicative action, the Scripture-reading by which God directly talks to his congregation. In this article the basic theoretical exploration indicates that Scripture-reading is the way in which God addresses us as: “Here I am!” God discloses his power to bestow grace upon and judge the congregation. Scripture-reading as signifying communicative action in the service can be regarded as a continuation of the idea of God’s presence implied by the tabernacle, temple, and synagogue – an idea also emphasised in New-Testament times and in the twentieth century. Scripture-reading is thus the binding and decisive factor in the meeting of God with his people. Some possibilities for the practical application of the independent Scripture-reading are indicated in this article.

scholarly journals Bible reading in Africa: the shaping of a reformed perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Wielenga
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Bible Reading ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

In this article I try to develop a reformed perspective on Bible reading in Africa by ordinary readers. I explore the concept of ordinary readers in the context of recent hermeneutical discus-sions, and of the differences between their mode of reading and that of biblical scholars against the background ofthe reality of the oral or semi-literate cultures of Africa. A reformed perspec-tive, with its emphasis on the church as locus for Bible reading under the operation of the Holy Spirit, opens up a way forward out of the dilemma between ordinary and professional Bible reading. A reformed perspective can also clear the way for a gender-sensitive reading of the Bible in a continent where most Bible readers are women. This requires from those who read the Bible together an attitude of humility.

The Holy Spirit and the Psalms

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
John Goldingay
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Concise Description ◽  
The Way

This article examines the connections between the Holy Spirit and the book of Psalms in terms of the Holy Spirit with, behind, and in the Psalms. The Spirit with the Psalms explores the Spirit’s work as the Psalms are utilized in worship and prayer. The Holy Spirit behind the Psalms considers the role of the Spirit in the composition of the Psalms. The Holy Spirit in the Psalms speaks to the way the Psalms themselves talk about the Holy Spirit. The article concludes with a concise description of the Spirit’s work in the Old Testament.

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