After the SpiritWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2005 M07 26 - 251 pages "To think about the Spirit it will not do to think 'spiritually': to think about the Spirit you have to think materially," claims Eugene F. Rogers. The Holy Spirit, who in classical Christian discourse "pours out on all flesh," has tended in modern theology and worship to float free of bodies. The result of such disembodiment, contends Rogers, is that our talk about the Spirit has become flat and uninspiring. In "After the Spirit Rogers diagnoses a related gap in the revival of trinitarian theology, a mentality that "there's nothing the Spirit can do that the Son can't do better." The Eastern Christian tradition, by contrast, has usually linked the Holy Spirit with holy places, holy people, and holy things. Weaving together a rich tapestry of sources from this tradition, Rogers locates the Spirit in the Gospel stories of the annunciation, Jesus' baptism, the transfiguration, and the resurrection. These stories offer illuminating glimpses into both the Spirit's connection with the tangible world and the Spirit's distinctive place in relation to the other persons of the Trinity. Eight gorgeous color plates complement Rogers's witty and passionate prose. |
Contents
After the Body After the Spirit | 1 |
Is There Nothing the Spirit Can Do That the Son Cant Do Better? or How the Spirit Puzzles a Trinitarian Revival | 19 |
ii Florensky shrugs | 23 |
iii How Barths love for Athanasius can cast out his fear of Schleiermacher | 29 |
Is the Spirit Superfluous? or How the Spirit Does Economics | 33 |
ii Bulgakov diagnoses the suspicion | 40 |
iii How Feuerbach and Schmemann are what they eat | 43 |
Where the Spirit Rests Matter and Narrative or How the Spirit Does Material Culture | 45 |
Baptism | 132 |
i The Spirit rests on the Son in the waters of the Jordan | 132 |
ii The Spirit rests on the Son in the waters of creation | 138 |
iii The Spirit rests on the Son in the Wilderness | 153 |
iv The Spirit rests on the Son in reversing the Fall | 158 |
Transfiguration | 162 |
ii The Spirit rests on the Son in prayer in the Trinity | 164 |
iii The Spirit rests on the Son in prayer in the liturgy | 165 |
an excursus on Augustine | 47 |
iii The narrative depicts the person | 52 |
iv The Spirit befriends matter | 55 |
v What the Spirit can do | 60 |
Resurrection | 75 |
ii The Spirit gives to Gentiles in the Son what Jews keep in the Messiah against supersessionism following Stowers | 85 |
Annunciation | 98 |
The Spirit favors the order of consummation over the order of redemption | 104 |
iii The Spirit rests on the Son in the womb of the Father | 111 |
iv The Spirit rests on the Son in the womb in Christs side | 112 |
v The Spirit rests on the Son in the womb of the wine | 115 |
iv The Spirit rests on the Son in the transfiguration of creation | 169 |
v The Spirit rests on the Son in asceses of marriage love and friendship | 173 |
hesychastic aspect | 181 |
vii The Spirit rests on the Son in the habits of the law | 183 |
Ascension and Pentecost | 190 |
AboutFace | 198 |
The Spirit rests on the Son in those who do not know how to pray | 202 |
SOURCES CITED OR CONSULTED | 213 |
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Other editions - View all
After the Spirit: A Constructive Pneumatology from Resources Outside the West Eugene F. Rogers No preview available - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
Abraham according Adam Annunciation Ascension Athanasius Augustine baptism becomes befriends body of Christ Brock Bulgakov celebration characteristic Christian Church concrete consummation creation creature death deification divine doctrine economy Ephrem the Syrian epiclesis Eucharist excess faith Father feast flesh Florensky Gentiles gift gives glorify glory God's grace Gregory Guerric heaven Holy Spirit human Hymns Incarnation interaction intratrinitarian Irenaeus Israel Jenson Jesus Jews John Karl Barth language liturgy Lord Luke means metaphor mystery narrative nature Nestorius NPNF Oxford participation pattern Paul Paul's Pavel Florensky Pentecost person phusin Pillar pneumatology practice pray prayer receive redemption relation Rereading of Romans resurrection Robert Jenson Romanos the Melodist Rowan Williams salvation Sebastian Brock sense Sergei Bulgakov Sexuality Simeon Spirit rests Staniloae Stowers superfluity Syriac takes theologians Theology thing Thomas Aquinas tion tradition trans transfiguration translation trinitarian Trinity triune University Press virgin witness word
References to this book
The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology John Webster,Kathryn Tanner,Iain Torrance No preview available - 2007 |