Taming the Spirit? Widening the Pneumatological Gaze within African Caribbean Theological Discourse
This paper is divided into two parts and is concerned with the need to revisit contemporary concepts of the Holy Spirit, particularly in African Caribbean theological discourse. Firstly, it explores the colonial context in which the Caribbean Church's concept of the Holy Spirit was formalized....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2015]
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Black theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 126-146 |
| RelBib Classification: | BS Traditional African religions KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBR Latin America KDG Free church NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit |
| Further subjects: | B
Holy Spirit
B Junkanoo B African Caribbean religio-cultural production B Pneumatology B African traditional religiosity |
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| Summary: | This paper is divided into two parts and is concerned with the need to revisit contemporary concepts of the Holy Spirit, particularly in African Caribbean theological discourse. Firstly, it explores the colonial context in which the Caribbean Church's concept of the Holy Spirit was formalized. The argument advanced here is that within the context of colonial religio-cultural oppression and the intense othering of the African person, pneumatologically oriented African Caribbean religiosity (and spirituality), has simultaneously been a place for reformation in the context of a colonial Christianity and the driving force behind African Caribbean forms of resistance and self-affirmation. Secondly, it argues for a hermeneutic of embrace where theology within the African Caribbean religio-cultural milieu will explore the continuities between the elusive nature of the Holy Spirit within Scripture, Christian history, and the very African religiosity particularly expressed in African Caribbean religio-cultural productions. Such an exploration would combat a Western theological tendency, as it always has done, to dismiss what are, clearly, powerful resources for Christian pneumatology. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1670 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1179/1476994815Z.00000000052 |