New PDF release: The Spirit Driven Church: Signs of God’s Graceful Presence

By Terje Hegertun

ISBN-10: 1498241670

ISBN-13: 9781498241670

ISBN-10: 1532617178

ISBN-13: 9781532617171

needs to the church be both charismatic or sacramental? during this booklet, Terje Hegertun argues that she has the privilege of being either. The Day of Pentecost shaped her identification and formed her conviction of being lifted at the palms of grace and driven ahead by way of the ability from on excessive. in the middle of her vulnerability and failure, the global religion neighborhood is a composition of the Spirit. one of many maximum presents the church might supply the area is just to be church: a charismatic-sacramental fellowship, a residing position of God's Spirit.
A church nurtured through swish charismatic and sacramental presents fosters a mature congregational spirituality wonderful by means of hospitable kinfolk. therefore, the Spirit of God performs the most function of being the great precept of Christian solidarity throughout denominational lines.

"Professor Terje Hegertun involves the duty of making a pneumatological ecclesiology really well-qualified. A life-long Pentecostal minister and theologian, he's additionally absolutely conversant with Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions. consuming from deep ecumenical wells of spirituality and theological perception, he provides to us a clean and compelling account of The Spirit pushed Church."
--Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Fuller Theological Seminary

"In this wealthy research, Terje Hegertun convincingly argues for the Spirit's relevant position in all features of the church's existence. talking from a Pentecostal history, his paintings is really ecumenical, bringing jointly voices from assorted traditions in a fruitful interpretation and alertness of the biblical message of the Holy Spirit."
--Harald Hegstad, MF Norwegian institution of Theology

"Hegertun offers us an impressively wealthy exploration of the church as constituted by way of the Spirit and, consequently, as an ongoing present of the Triune God. this is often an exhilarating contribution to ecumenical ecclesiology!"
--Frank D. Macchia, leading edge University

Terje Hegertun is professor of Systematic Theology at MF Norwegian institution of Theology, Oslo, Norway.

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