If only Barth had finished his Church Dogmatics we would actually have this developing pneumatology.
συνεσταύρωμαι: living the crucified life
From Frank Macchia’s FB page:
A cautious but affirming response to Pentecostalism:
“One could never have enough of Pentecost. This has to do with the Holy Spirit. For this reason, a little Pentecostalism — also again as salt of the earth (cf. Matt. 5:13)– cannot hurt any of us… It is quite necessary that someone draw attention to the fact that we all need the Holy Spirit. When one does that, and then something from Pentecost becomes visible again, how can we say something against it? There is nothing that can be said against it.”
– Karl Barth
(Busch, ed., Gasamtausgabe, Gesprache 1964-68, 430-32)
Someone responded:
A Barthian scholar and friend noted to me that Barth always left room for the surprising work of God, but did so only ‘out of the corner of his eye.’ Maybe that’s what he meant by ‘a little Pentecostalism.’
To which Macchia replied:
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Rick, fascinating that I would get notification of this post on a day when I was studying the life of Saul in 1 Samuel. I do not think there are any of us that does not covet a true sense of ‘Pentecostalism’, or a true movement and outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the church and upon HIs poeple. What we do not want, however, is the ‘pentecostalism’ of Saul, who was imbued with a spirit from the Lord, who was a changed man, who was numbered among the prophets, yet whose heart was rebellious and not fully turned toward the Lord. I am not sure to what the ‘evil spirit from the Lord’ refers; but I can tell you that it scares me. Its manifestation, apparently, is indistinguishible from the true Spirit; but at its root it is rebellious in nature and akin to the evil of witchcraft. May God spare us and our churches from this kind of a ‘move of the spirit.’
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