The Spirit of Life : A Universal Affirmation Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Translator's Note
	Introduction: Approaches in Pneumatology Today	1
	1. The Ecumenical and Pentecostal Invitation to the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit	3
	2. Overcoming the False Alternative between Divine Revelation and Human Experience of the Holy Spirit	5
	3. The Discovery of the Cosmic Breadth of the Divine Spirit	8
	4. The Question about the Personhood of the Holy Spirit	10
Pt. 1	Experiences of the Spirit
I	Experience of Life - Experience of God	17
1	Dimensions of Experience	18
2	Experience Subjectified and Methodologized in Modern Times: God in the Determining Subject	28
3	Immanent Transcendence: God in All Things	31
II	Historical Experience of the Spirit	39
1	Spirit - the Divine Energy of Life	40
2	God's Presence in the Spirit Among His People	43
3	God's Spirit and His Shekinah	47
4	Messianic Expectations of the Spirit	51
III	Trinitarian Experience of the Spirit	58
1	The Christ of the Spirit: the Spirituality of Jesus	60
2	The Spirit of Christ: the Spirituality of the Community of his People	65
3	Trinitarian Mutuality between God's Spirit and His Son	71
4	The Expectation of the Spirit in Hoping and Lamenting	73
Pt. 2	Life in the Spirit
IV	The Spirit of Life	83
1	Spirituality or Vitality?	83
2	The Conflict between the 'Spirit' and the 'Flesh'	86
3	The Gnostic Misunderstanding of the Apocalyptic Conflict	89
4	New Vitality: Life against Death	94
V	The Liberation for Life	99
1	Experience of God as Experience of Liberation: Exodus and Resurrection	99
2	The Modern Alternative: God or Freedom?	105
3	Spirit that Liberates for Life	114
4	The Experience of Freedom as Experience of God: The Lord is the Spirit	120
VI	The Justification of Life	123
1	The Justification of Sinners: General or Specific?	124
2	The Righteousness and Justice of God which Creates Justice for Victims	129
3	The Justifying Righteousness and Justice of God for the Perpetrators	132
4	The Rectifying Righteousness and Justice of God for Structures	138
5	The Spirit as Judge	142
VII	The Rebirth to Life	144
1	Biblical Interpretations	145
2	The Discussion in Systematic Theology	147
3	Personal Experience in Regeneration: incipit vita nova	153
4	The Experience of God in Regeneration: the Spirit as the Mother of Life	157
VIII	The Sanctification of Life	161
1	Justification and Sanctification in Luther and Wesley	163
2	Sanctification Today	171
3	The Sanctifying God	174
4	The Holy Life	175
5	The Holy Spirit as the Power of Life and the Space for Living	177
IX	The Charismatic Powers of Life	180
1	The Charismatic Vitality of the New Life	181
2	Speaking with Tongues	185
3	The Awakening of Charismatic Experience	186
4	The Healing of the Sick	188
5	The Charisma of the Handicapped Life	192
6	Everyone according to his Abilities, Everyone according to his Needs	193
7	The Holy Spirit as Source of Energy and Field of Force	195
X	Theology of Mystical Experience	198
1	Action and Meditation	199
2	Meditation and Contemplation	202
3	Contemplation and Mysticism	205
4	Mysticism and Martyrdom	208
5	The Vision of the World in God	211
Pt. 3	The Fellowship and Person of the Spirit
XI	The Fellowship of the Spirit	217
1	Experience of the Spirit - Experience of Fellowship	217
2	Christianity in the Fellowship of the Spirit	229
3	The Theology of the Social Experience of God	248
XII	The Personhood of the Spirit	268
1	Metaphors for the Experience of the Spirit	269
2	The Streaming Personhood of the Divine Spirit	285
3	The Trinitarian Personhood of the Holy Spirit	289
	Veni Creator Spiritus	310
	Notes	312
	Index of Names	347
	Index of Confessions, Creeds and other Documents	354
	Index of Biblical References	355