The Holy Spirit as the Fulfillment of the Liturgy

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes James B. Torrance, Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 32. Vladimir Lossky, Orthodoxy Theology: An Introduction (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1989), 46. C. F. D. Moule, The Holy Spirit (London: Mowbrays, 1980), 44. Basil the Great, De Spiritu Sancto, 1:3, http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3203.htm. Pavel Florensky, The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, trans. Boris Jakim (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 85. E.g., Otto Weber, Foundations of Dogmatics, trans. Darrell L. Guder (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1983), 2: 235–36. Eugene F. Rogers, “The Mystery of the Spirit in Three Traditions: Calvin, Rahner, Florensky Or, You Keep Wondering Where the Spirit Went,” Modern Theology 19, no. 2 (April 2003): 243–60 (256). See the generally negative assessment by R. A. Knox, Enthusiasm (London: Collins, 1987 [1950]). Such examples can be seen in The Spirit of Worship and Worship in the Spirit, eds. Teresa Berger and Bryan Spinks (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009). W. J. Hollenweger, “Gifts of the Spirit: Natural and Supernatural,” in International Dictionary of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, ed. Stanley M. Burgess, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002), 667–68. E.g., John Mansford Prior, S.V.D., “Jesus Christ the Way to the Father: The Challenge of the Pentecostals,” FABC Papers 119, http://www.fabc.org/fabc%20papers/fabc_paper_119.pdf. Lumen Gentium no. 4, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html. Hans urs von Balthasar, Explorations in Theology III: Creator Spirit, trans. Brian McNeil (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993), 125–26. Cf. David L. Schindler, “Institution and Charism: The Missions of the Son and the Spirit in Church and World,” Communio 25, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 258. Boris Bobrinskoy, “The Church and the Holy Spirit in 20th Century Russia,” Ecumenical Review 52, no. 3 (2000): 329. The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann 1973–1983, trans. Juliana Schmemann (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2002), 137, 291–92. Emphasis his. Robert Jenson, Systematic Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 1:157. Jenson, Systematic Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 2:204–5. Jenson, Systematic Theology 2:167–88 (see n. 16). Translation by the author. Angelos J. Philippou, “The Mystery of Pentecost,” in The Orthodox Ethos, ed. A. J. Philippou (Oxford: Holywell, 1964), 91. Nissiotis, “Spirit, Church, and Ministry,” Theology Today 19 (1963): 485. The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (London: James Clarke, 1957), 168. Author's emphasis. David du Plessis, The Spirit Bade Me Go: The Astounding Move of God in the Denominational Churches, rev. ed. (Oakland, CA: David du Plessis, 1963), 16. Reinhard Hütter, Suffering Divine Things: Theology as Church Practice (Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 2000). John D. Zizioulas, Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press), 130. Nikos A. Nissiotis, “Called to Unity: The Significance of the Invocation of the Spirit for Church Unity,” in Lausanne 77: Fifty Years of Faith and Order (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1977), 54. Florensky, 89–90 (see n. 5). For a classic study of the synergistic nature of the liturgy see Jean Corbon, The Wellspring of Worship, 2nd ed. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005). Kenneth Paul Wesche, “The Doctrine of Deification: A Call to Worship,” Theology Today 65 (2008): 175. Gordon W. Lathrop, Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993). Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, no. 30, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html. “The Second Helvitic Confession,” in Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition: Reformation Era, vol. 2, eds. Jaraslav Pelikan and Valarie Hotchkiss (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003), chap. 1, sect. 4. John H. McKenna, The Eucharistic Epiclesis: A Detailed History from the Patristic to the Modern Era, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2009), chap. 8. “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling,” The United Methodist Hymnal (Nashville, TN: United Methodist Publications, 1989), #384. Convergence churches are those seeking to integrate the sacramental, evangelical, and charismatic dimensions of worship. See Wayne Boosahda and Randy Sly, “The Convergence Movement,” in The Complete Library of Christian Worship, vol. 2, ed. Robert Webber (Nashville, TN: Star Song, 1994), 134–40. Wout van Laar, “Churches as Healing Communities: Impulses from the South for an Integral Understanding of Healing,” Exchange 35, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 226–41. Additional informationNotes on contributorsSimon ChanSimon Chan is the Earnest Lau Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Theological College, Singapore.