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Moltmann, “the foremost Protestant theologian in the world,” brings his characteristic audacity to this traditional topic, cutting to the heart of the matter with a simple identification: What we experience every day as the spirit of life is the spirit of God. Such considerations give Moltmann’s treatment of the different aspects of life in the Spirit a verve and vitality that are concrete and...

pentecostal and charismatic movements, and reflection about their special experiences of the Spirit.6 Between the patristic pneumatology of the Orthodox church on the one hand, and the pentecostal experiences of the young churches on the other, there are also the still unsettled questions of modern European times—the age of ‘subjectivity’ and ‘experience’. Fired by Joachimite expectation, the classic German philosophers, Lessing, Kant, Fichte and Hegel, interpreted ‘Enlightenment’ as ‘the third age’—
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