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One of the most exciting recent developments in theology has been an unprecedented interest in the person and work of the Holy Spirit. In fact, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen describes this phenomenon as a “pneumatological renaissance.” But such discussion should be informed, he contends, by two overarching principles. First, we must acknowledge the variety of approaches to the experience of the Holy...

ramifications of the role of the Spirit? What is the role of pneumatology in Zizioulas’s view of the church?11 The New Testament calls the church the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:12–13; Eph. 1:22–23; 4:15–16; etc.). Never is the church labeled the “body of the Spirit,” and never are Christians said to be “members of the Spirit.”12 Therefore, the traditional christological grounding of the church seems well-founded. Zizioulas takes note of the fact that ecclesiologies traditionally have been built on
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