Simeon Zahl

Pneumatology and Theology of the Cross in the Preaching of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (eBook, PDF)

The Holy Spirit Between Wittenberg and Azusa Street

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book identifies the impasse between classical Protestant and contemporary charismatic and Pentecostal pneumatologies as a fundamental theological problem. Its goal is to contribute a constructive pneumatological proposal for moving beyond this impasse, based on the resources of the theology of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919). The disagreement is over the question of unmediated experience of the Holy Spirit. Luther's rejection of 'enthusiastic' pneumatologies on the basis of a narrow concept of the mediation of the Word and a pessimistic anthropology became Protestant orthodoxy. In relation to classical Protestantism, the primary theological distinctive of charismatic theology is its strong affirmation of unmediated experience of the Spirit in Christian life and worship. The Pentecostal movement's rapid growth in the past century has brought this difference to the fore. Christoph Blumhardt's theology, which integrates pessimistic anthropology and unmediated experience, is well-suited to exploring the impasse between the two theological traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567133113
• Artikelnr.: 40781516

Autorenporträt

Simeon Zahl studied at Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, where he received his doctorate. He is currently an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK.