[AJPS 3/2 (2000), pp. 167-188] ON DIVINE PRESENCE AND DIVINE AGENCY: TOWARD A FOUNDATIONAL PNEUMATOLOGY
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Who or what is the Holy Spirit? What is the Holy Spirit doing today? In what directions is the Holy Spirit leading? How is the Holy Spirit to be discerned? These are the kinds of questions that Christians the world over are intrigued by and are asking today. Resolutions to these questions are relatively easier to formulate within the confines of the Church. The questions are oftentimes dismissed, and otherwise not even seriously considered when relocated to the arena of the world at large. Or, even if they are posed in this latter context, the answers are much more elusive. To articulate and respond to these questions about who the Holy Spirit is relative to the world as a whole and what the Spirit is doing in the world is to plunge into the subject matter of foundational pneumatology. This paper probes three lines of questioning. 1) What is a foundational pneumatology? 2) Why is this an important theological undertaking? 3) Why should Pentecostals and Charismatics be interested in this project?
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