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""To think about the Spirit it will not do to think 'spiritually': to think about the Spirit you have to think materially,"" claims Eugene F. Rogers. The Holy Spirit, who in classical Christian discourse ""pours out on all flesh,"" has tended in modern theology and worship to float free of bodies. The result of such disembodiment, contends Rogers, is that our talk about the Spirit has become flat and uninspiring. In After the Spirit Rogers diagnoses a related gap in the revival of trinitarian theology, a mentality that ""there's nothing the Spirit can do that the Son can't do better."" The Eastern Christian tradition, by contrast, has usually linked the Holy Spirit with holy places, holy people, and holy things. Weaving together a rich tapestry of sources from this tradition, Rogers locates the Spirit in the Gospel stories of the annunciation, Jesus' baptism, the transfiguration, and the resurrection. These stories offer illuminating glimpses into both the Spirit's connection with the tangible world and the Spirit's distinctive place in relation to the other persons of the Trinity.

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Author:   Eugene F. Rogers
Publisher:   William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Imprint:   William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780802828910

ISBN 10:   0802828914
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   30 July 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: After the Body, After the Spirit YOU WONDER WHERE THE SPIRIT WENT Is There Nothing the Spirit Can Do That the Son Can't Do Better? or, How the Spirit Puzzles a Trinitarian Revival Barth fumbles (Karl Barth, Gregory of Nazianzus) Florensky shrugs (Pavel Florensky and the Pentecost liturgy) How Barth's love for Athanasius can cast out fear of Schleiermacher (Barth, Athanasius) Is the Spirit Superfluous? or, How the Spirit Does Economics The Plowman suspects the surplus (Piers Plowman as in Vance Smith) Bulgakov diagnoses the suspicion (Sergei Bulgakov) How Feuerbach and Schmemann are what they eat (Feuerbach, Alexander Schmemann) Where the Spirit Rests: Matter and Narrative; or, How the Spirit Does Material Culture A person seeks to be known (P. F.Strawson, Emmanuel-Pataq Siman) The Spirit deifies: An excursus on Augustine (as interpreted by R. Williams and T. van Bavel) The narrative depicts the person The Spirit befriends matter What the Spirit can do THE SPIRIT RESTS ON THE BODY OF THE SON Resurrection The Spirit rests on the Son in the resurrection and so identifies all three Persons by it (history of exegesis of Romans 8) The Spirit gives to Gentiles in the Son what Jews keep in the Messiah (against supersessionism, following Stowers) Annunciation The Spirit rests on the Son in the womb of Mary (Romanos the Melodist) Felix dilatio: The Spirit favors the order of consummation over the order of redemption (Amadeus of Lausanne) The Spirit rests on the Son in the womb of the Father (Augustine, Benedict, Toledo) The Spirit rests on the Son in the womb in Christ's side (Gregory of Nyssa, Caroline Bynum, Guerric d'Igny) The Spirit rests on the Son in the womb of the wine (Ephrem and other Syrians, Rowan Williams, Judith Butler) Baptism The Spirit rests on the Son in the waters of the Jordan (Jacob of Serugh, Emile Durkheim, Gregory of Nyssa, and others) The Spirit rests on the Son in the waters of creation (Ephrem, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory of Nazianzus, Irenaeus, and others) The Spirit rests on the Son in the wilderness (Isaac of Nineveh, Donald Mackinnon, others) The Spirit rests on the Son in reversing the Fall (Sebastian Moore) Transfiguration The Spirit rests on the Son in prayer on Mount Tabor The Spirit rests on the Son in prayer in the Trinity The Spirit rests on the Son in prayer in the liturgy The Spirit rests on the Son in the transfiguration of creation The Spirit rests on the Son in asceses of marriage, love, and friendship (Simeon Stylites, Bulgakov) The Spirit rests on the human being at prayer: hesychastic aspect (Symeon the New Theologian) The Spirit rests on the Son in the habits of the law (Thomas Aquinas) Ascension and Pentecost About-Face EPILOGUE: The Spirit rests on the Son in those who do not know how to pray SOURCES CITED OR CONSULTED INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS INDEX OF SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

Reviews

Jeffrey Stout After the Spirit is a learned, eloquent, gracious response to the dearth of theological reflection on the Holy Spirit in the modern Christian West. If you have been wondering where the Spirit went, or what it might mean for the Spirit to befriend the body, or how Barth, Coakley, and Rahner might be brought into fruitful conversation with Bulgakov, Florensky, and Simeon the Elder, then read this book. Lewis Ayres For those who have found themselves bored by the wilted spinach of recent writing on the Spirit, Rogers offers a real steak... Drawing on a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Syriac patristic sources, as well as engaging a fascinating variety of modern authors, Rogers shapes his theology through close readings of Scripture and tradition. In a way that we have come to expect from Rogers, tradition riffs on Scripture, and Scripture is then allowed to take up the chords of tradition and play something new that draws us back to listen again to the old. Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox should all find something here to delight and challenge.

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Eugene F Rogers Jr is professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and the author/editor of three previous works.

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