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Pneumatology: The Holy Spirit in Ecumenical, International, and Contextual Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

supernatural … [and] fus[ing] the natural and supernatural, the emotional and rational, the charismatic and institutional in a decidedly postmodern way.” She has characterized this Pentecostal worldview by “its belief in and experience of the paranormal as an alternate Weltanschauung for our instrumental rational modern society.”126 Donald Dayton, in his seminal work Theological Roots of Pentecostalism,127 has urged Pentecostals to understand themselves through a paradigm involving several theological
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