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Easter resurrection and Pentecost mission

January 26, 2008 in 21st century church, Discipleship

Jose Comblin wrote ‘the Jesus event and the Holy Spirit event’ in the New Testament are crucial to each other and should be in the outworking of our Trinitarian faith. There is this vital relationship between the Word and the Spirit, between Easter resurrection and Pentecost mission.
Western theology has sought to play down Pentecost in favour of Easter ‘A theology mutilated in this way cannot be effective on the plane of action : without the experience of the Spirit Jesus could never have moved the men and women of his day as he did, not even those who heard him and followed him’. The same is true today.

From Martin Cavender letter Dec 20
Ref The Holy Spirit and Liberation by Jose Comblin
Jose Comblin is a Roman Catholic theologian working in Brazil since 1958, mostly among the poor and deprived in the shanty towns.

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