To Think God as Love

Is the Spirit’s groaning different from the groaning of the creation and the believer? Moo thinks so. He writes, [W]hile there is an obvious literary parallelism between the “groaning” of creation (v. 22), the Christian, and the Spirit, the groaning of the Spirit is very different in its nature and purpose from the other two [...]

Thus Eucharist and Scripture need to be held together if we are to have an adequate theology of either. The Eucharist is the primary locus of the listening Church, the place where it shows itself to be there in response to the call of God; and the Scripture that embodies that call has to be [...]

WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT, God is far away, Christ stays in the past, the Gospel is a dead letter, the Church is simply an organisation, authority a matter of domination, mission a matter of propaganda, the liturgical services no more than a reminder of the past, Christian living a slave morality. BUT WITH THE HOLY [...]

“The Holy Spirit makes a world for us. This world is composed of things which together represent the hospitality of God, and his invitation to pass that hospitality on, and exercise it for one another. So God, the Holy Spirit, makes things physical for us. The Spirit makes the body, and indeed many bodies, and [...]

In spite of the fact that Pentecostalism (in myriad forms) has found and continues to find wide acceptance, the distinctive Pentecostal phenomenon, speaking in tongues (glossolalia), has not enjoyed the same success; this is especially true now in the West. According to Charette (“Reflective Speech: Glossolalia and the Image of God,” Pneuma 28:2 {Fall 2006}), tongue-speaking in most North American Pentecostal/Charismatic [...]