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Title: Incarnational Realism
Author : Travis E. Ables
Release Date : January 18, 2013
Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1392 KB

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In the last half

of the 20th century, a consensus emerged that Christian theology in

the Western tradition had failed to produce a viable doctrine of the Holy

Spirit, and that Augustine's trinitarian theology bore the blame for much of

that failure. This book offers a fresh rereading of Western trinitarian

theology to better understand the logic of its pneumatology. Ables studies the

pneumatologies of Augustine and Karl Barth, and argues that the vision of the

doctrine of the Spirit in these theologians should be understood as a way of

talking about participating in the mystery of God as a performance of the life

of Christ. He claims that for both

theologians trinitarian doctrine encapsulates the grammar of the divine

self-giving in history. The function of pneumatology in particular is to

articulate the human reception and enactment of God's self-giving as itself

part of the act of God; this "self-involving" logic is the special grammar of

the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.