The Mediation of the Spirit: Interventions in Practical Theology (Pentecostal Manifestos (PM)) by Mark J. Cartledge

Author:Mark J. Cartledge
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Published: 2015-07-07T23:00:00+00:00

3.4 Conclusion

This chapter has discussed the key concept at the center of the thesis of this book, namely, pneumatological mediation. It has done so, first of all, by engaging with recent P/C scholarship. This scholarship explains mediation and pneumatology in relation to religious experience, and in particular Spirit baptism, in the context of P/C communities and their ecclesial practices. Although these experiences are specific, they can be used in a more general sense to speak about how the person and work of the Holy Spirit can be mediated. The outcome of this discussion is subsequently brought into conversation with key figures in the broader Protestant theological tradition. Thus the ways in which the idea of pneumatological mediation is expressed are given a Protestant ecumenical context. This enables the P/C theological conversation to be set alongside other historical and contemporary theological conversations, which allows resonances to be discerned.

As a preliminary answer to the first part of the research question set at the beginning of the chapter, it may be said that a distinct contribution is constructed from the notion of pneumatological mediation. This concept is informed by Pentecostal experience and associated empowerment, is shaped by specific theological loci, and is expressed in ecclesial practices, especially sacramental practices broadly conceived. These practices can be appreciated in terms of the providential notion of concursus, which accounts for the manner in which divine and human agency are understood to coordinate and function. This chapter sets the broader conceptual framework for the notion of pneumatological mediation, which will focus on the elucidation of key biblical texts in Luke-­Acts, to which we now turn.

1. Mark J. Cartledge, “Empirical Theology: Towards an Evangelical-­Charismatic Hermeneutic,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 9 (1996): 115-26; “Practical Theology and Charismatic Spirituality: Dialectics in the Spirit,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 10, no. 2 (2002): 93-109; Practical Theology: Charismatic and Empirical Perspectives (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2003); Testimony in the Spirit: Rescripting Ordinary Pentecostal Theology (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).

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