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Holy Spirit and Mediation: Towards a Transformational Pneumatology
Author(s) -
Davies Oliver
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/ijst.12048
Subject(s) - pneumatology , immanence , transcendence (philosophy) , philosophy , social connectedness , theology , transformational leadership , mediation , perspective (graphical) , physicalism , metaphysics , epistemology , sociology , social psychology , psychology , art , social science , visual arts
In modern theology the living connectedness between exalted S on and S pirit of P entecost in history has been broken, leading to their linearity and to a structure whereby the S pirit seems to ‘take the place’ of the S on. Modern forms of ‘substitutionism’ distort the theological perspective. The ‘non‐reductive physicalism’ of contemporary science can return us to an understanding of T rinity in history, based not on the modern binary of transcendence and immanence but the integrated, transformational hermeneutic of scriptural tradition. This is the critical reorientation of theology to the living C hrist, in the H oly S pirit, which corrects the substitutionary structure to a mediatory one.