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The Mediation of the Spirit: Interventions in Practical Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

How might a distinctively Pentecostal and charismatic theological perspective inform and enrich the discourse of academic practical theology? In order to address that question, Mark Cartledge in this book probes the relationship between Scripture, experience, and the Holy Spirit by means of the concept of mediation, that is, how the divine is experienced in the world. An expert in both...

individuals do not experience the Spirit in isolation from the social dynamics of the corporate event. Ecclesial practices give a pattern to the experience of mediation as well as open up spaces for more spontaneous types of experiences, which nevertheless are understood as exhibiting certain recognizable forms. These corporate experiences of mediation are not just mental events, which are experienced in isolation. They are also embodied and relational.27 The experience of sung worship, for example,
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