The Spirit of Spontaneity: Toward a Pneumatology of Spontaneity in Corporate Worship
This essay explores a pneumatology of spontaneity in corporate worship, drawing upon a vivid example from the author’s pastoral experience and integrating biblical, theological, and liturgical insights. It argues that the Holy Spirit creates spontaneity in worship as both the Spirit-of-the-Moment an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Pneuma
Year: 2025, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-262 |
| Further subjects: | B
traditioned innovation
B Holy Spirit B Worship B corporate worship B Pneumatology B responsive spontaneity B Liturgy B Improvisation |
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| Summary: | This essay explores a pneumatology of spontaneity in corporate worship, drawing upon a vivid example from the author’s pastoral experience and integrating biblical, theological, and liturgical insights. It argues that the Holy Spirit creates spontaneity in worship as both the Spirit-of-the-Moment and the Improvising Spirit. The essay challenges binary understandings of order versus freedom and offers a constructive model where spontaneity is seen as a Spirit-enabled, trinitarian dynamic. Ultimately, the Spirit’s gift of spontaneity is not for spectacle but for the edification of the Body, the formation of Christlikeness, and the glorification of the triune God. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0747 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pneuma
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10140 |
