Church as Pneumatic Community
Ekklesia: A Pneumatic Community sharing the Divine Wisdom-Spirit
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Reading the Bible from Feminist, Dalit, Tribal and Adivasi Perspectives
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Introduction
The transforming power of the Spirit is evident at the beginning of the history of the Christian church. The church is a transformed by Spirit into Pneumatic Community. On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit was received by the apostles as a community but not as individuals. This shows us that the church is bound by the Holy Spirit to transform it to pneumatic community. Basing on this, the paper tries to explain the church as a pneumatic community sharing the divine wisdom i.e. Spirit of God and also the formation of pneumatic community as well as its catholicity.
Pneumatology and Ekklesia
“Traditionally, pneumatology has not received a separate locus in Christina systematic theologies”. Mostly the pneumatological are incorporated into soteriology. It is also connected at times with Ekklesia. This placement seems natural in view of fact that already in ancient creeds the Holy Spirit was connected with church. Obviously, pneumatology has similarities with Christology. Thomas Aquinas states that our faith is in Holy Spirit who sanctifies the church. Wilfhart Pannenberg, a systematic theologian, identifies ecclesiology imbued with pneumatological foundations. Pneumatology cannot be construed without ecclesiological foundation. Congar identifies the church as a communion of local and particular churches as an ensemble of the gifts of the Spirit, a communion in diversity.
The Holy Spirit and the Social Experience of Men and Women
Moltmann places the question of sexism in relation to the Spirit of God in a wider sense i.e. that of community bound by Holy Spirit. Theologically, it is not enough just to criticize traditional theologies for neglecting feminine terminology and attempt to replace the masculine with
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Reading the Bible from Feminist, Dalit, Tribal and Adivasi Perspectives
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Introduction
The transforming power of the Spirit is evident at the beginning of the history of the Christian church. The church is a transformed by Spirit into Pneumatic Community. On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit was received by the apostles as a community but not as individuals. This shows us that the church is bound by the Holy Spirit to transform it to pneumatic community. Basing on this, the paper tries to explain the church as a pneumatic community sharing the divine wisdom i.e. Spirit of God and also the formation of pneumatic community as well as its catholicity.
Pneumatology and Ekklesia
“Traditionally, pneumatology has not received a separate locus in Christina systematic theologies”. Mostly the pneumatological are incorporated into soteriology. It is also connected at times with Ekklesia. This placement seems natural in view of fact that already in ancient creeds the Holy Spirit was connected with church. Obviously, pneumatology has similarities with Christology. Thomas Aquinas states that our faith is in Holy Spirit who sanctifies the church. Wilfhart Pannenberg, a systematic theologian, identifies ecclesiology imbued with pneumatological foundations. Pneumatology cannot be construed without ecclesiological foundation. Congar identifies the church as a communion of local and particular churches as an ensemble of the gifts of the Spirit, a communion in diversity.
The Holy Spirit and the Social Experience of Men and Women
Moltmann places the question of sexism in relation to the Spirit of God in a wider sense i.e. that of community bound by Holy Spirit. Theologically, it is not enough just to criticize traditional theologies for neglecting feminine terminology and attempt to replace the masculine with
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