Holy Spirit Book Suggestions
Hey guys,
I am currently looking for Pneumatology resources outside of reformed, evangelical thought. I am curious if anyone has any suggestions on the most controversial, popular books or articles released concerning the Holy Spirit within the last few hundred years?
Thanks!
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These should get you started:
Jurgen Moltmann, Church and the Power of the Spirit
Gordon Fee, God's Empowering Presence
Basil, On the Holy Spirit
Athanasius Works on the Spirit
Karkkainen, Pneumatology
John Paul II, Dominum et Vivificantem
Bloesch, The Holy Spirit
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
L8 Anglican, Lutheran and Orthodox Silver, Reformed Starter, Academic Essentials
L7 Lutheran Gold, Anglican Bronze
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Jack Cottrell:
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection. - Colossians 3:14
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Good Morning, Holy Spirit | Logos Bible Software 😱🙈
Sorry, couldn't resist...
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Lol. Good Stuff
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I've been reading Come, Creator Spirit: Meditations on the Veni Creator by Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa (published by Liturgical Press, 2008) for my Trinity course in seminary. Not that it's a controversial text (perhaps it will be for you), and it isn't a landmark text that changes the theological conversation, but there is an observation in the author's introduction that caught me off guard and gave me a moment of pause, which is why I share it with you:
"In the Christian churches of the West, the year 2000 began with the solemn chanting of the Veni Creator. Ever since the early decades of the second millennium, every new year, every century, every conclave, every ecumenical council, every synod, every meeting of any importance in the life of the Church, every priestly ordination, every consecration of a bishop, and in years gone by, every coronation of a monarch, began exactly the same way. This hymn was composed in the ninth century, and it has resounded unceasingly ever since then..."
"The Veni Creator is an eminently ecumenical text, and this too helps to make it particularly suitable for the epoch in which we are living. It is the only ancient Latin hymn that has been adopted by all the major churches born of the Reformation. Luther himself undertook a German translation of it. From the very beginning of the Anglican Church, the hymn was included in the rite of the ordination of a bishop. In the churches that have developed in the Calvinist tradition, it occupies an honored place in the collection of hymns for Pentecost. Hence it is that the Veni Creator makes it possible for all Christians to be united in their invocation of the Holy Spirit, who is the one who will lead us to full unity, as the Spirit is the one who leads us to the fullness of truth..."
For those who do not immediately recognize the hymn by its name, here is a link to its wikipedia page.
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Thanks for posting this
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Br Damien-Joseph OSB said:
Not that it's a controversial text (perhaps it will be for you), and it isn't a landmark text that changes the theological conversation, but there is an observation in the author's introduction that caught me off guard and gave me a moment of pause, which is why I share it with you:
"[...]The Veni Creator is an eminently ecumenical text, and this too helps to make it particularly suitable for the epoch in which we are living. It is the only ancient Latin hymn that has been adopted by all the major churches born of the Reformation. Luther himself undertook a German translation of it. From the very beginning of the Anglican Church, the hymn was included in the rite of the ordination of a bishop. In the churches that have developed in the Calvinist tradition, it occupies an honored place in the collection of hymns for Pentecost. Hence it is that the Veni Creator makes it possible for all Christians to be united in their invocation of the Holy Spirit.... "
I started typing so many different messages here, but didn't want to get off-topic. Let me just thank you for posting this and get to work on writing another musical settings for these amazing words. (My church couldn't pull off the original, anyway.)
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