On not being spirited away: pneumatology and critical presence

Title: On not being spirited away: pneumatology and critical presence
Creator: McDowell, John C.
Relation: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Filioque for the 21st Century p. 167-184
Relation: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/ecumenical-perspectives-on-the-filioque-for-the-21st-century-9780567500724
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: 'Christian theology', Vladimir Lossky observes, 'does not know of an abstract divinity'. By this one can read 'no doctrine of God abstracted from the rich sets of traditions that provide a context for the form of such a confession', traditions that shape reason doxologically to witness to the incomprehensible 'plentitude of being'. Sounding like Pascal he declares that 'the God of the philosophers and savants is introduced into the heart of the Living God, taking the place of the Deus absconditus, qui posuit tenebras labitulum suum'. Consequently, what Christian dogmatics speaks of as the 'Holy Spirit' cannot be conceived as the Spirit of such an abstracted God, but of the God who 'descends' in 'the divine person of Christ [who] makes human persons capable of an ascent in the Holy Spirit'.
Subject: theology; Christianity; philosophy; Holy Spirit
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1296029
Identifier: uon:19177
Identifier: ISBN:9780567500724
Language: eng