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nshwilliams.bsky.social
Pneumatology in the Gospel of John: Jesus doesn't need a bucket to draw living water out of Jacob’s well because he has a really long straw instead.

#NarrativeLectionary

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A Funny thing: John 4
A Funny thing happened on the way to the pulpit with John 4:1-42, the Narrative Lectionary for February 1. Where are we? Samaritana. Julio Romero de Torres. 1920. This painting won’t work as …
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January 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
drempel.bsky.social
IOW, you can’t just take the “goods” of Christianity and run away from the ongoing, active presence of the living Christ. To do so is to do something that is “un-Christian.”

People often chide Barth for lacking pneumatology, but the HS is what actualizes this Christology. It’s the *living* Christ.
January 26, 2026 at 3:50 PM
religionprof.bsky.social
Naming the Spirit: Pneumatology Through the Arts. (David O. Taylor & Daniel Train, editors) - Review www.bobcornwall.com/2026/01/nami...
Naming the Spirit: Pneumatology Through the Arts. (David O. Taylor & Daniel Train, editors) - Review
A blog about Christianity, theology, religion and public life.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM
wordandway.bsky.social
Our latest review from @drbobcornwall.bsky.social covers a fresh perspective on pneumatology from @wdavidotaylor.bsky.social and Daniel Train (@ivpacademic.bsky.social).
Review: Naming the Spirit - Word&Way
In this book, W. David O. Taylor and Daniel Train bring together a remarkable group of theologians, scholars, and artists to offer a fresh perspective on pneumatology through the creative lens of the ...
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January 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
drbobcornwall.bsky.social
Review - Naming the Spirit: Pneumatology through the Arts, ed. by @wdavidotaylor.bsky.social & Daniel Train (@ivpacademic.bsky.social). Reflections on Holy Spirit in conversation w/ the arts, writ large (not just painting & Sculpture). www.bobcornwall.com/2026/01/nami... #books #pneumatology
Naming the Spirit: Pneumatology Through the Arts. (David O. Taylor & Daniel Train, editors) - Review
A blog about Christianity, theology, religion and public life.
www.bobcornwall.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:58 PM
blueberrymill.bsky.social
Oh, I gotcha. That's a great catch. Very weak pneumatology
January 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM
spearnet.org
The interplay of God, creation, Christology, and pneumatology forms a fundamental axis within Christian theological discourse. This relationship is not merely academic; it shapes the believer's understanding of… https://spearnet.org/2026/01/15/the-interplay-of-god-cre…

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The Interplay of God, Creation, Christology, and Pneumatology in Theological Discourse
The interplay of God, creation, Christology, and pneumatology forms a fundamental axis within Christian theological discourse. This relationship is not merely academic; it shapes the believer's under…
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January 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
crtcltheology.bsky.social
Opening pneumatology class today with a prayer commemorating the martyr, Martin Luther King Jr. My Canadian students will hear how the Holy Spirit filled him.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 PM
drmoonssj.bsky.social
One year at #BostonCollege! With classes on Vatican II, pneumatology, and #spiritualdirection, it seems that the "seven fat years" have started. I've never felt that I can fully use my talents as much as now. That is wonderful indeed and fills me with thankfulness. Deo gratias!
January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
samobiwon77.bsky.social
As I look at the ministry landscape and see burnout, struggles, hurt, and failures, I am convinced of this:

We may say the right things about the Spirit and what the Spirit does, but we don't actually live and practice as if our pneumatology is true.💔
December 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social
I am not opposed to the use of technology in academia. But I also know that the assignments in theology classes are not given because the field needs a few dozen more MDiv reflections on Moltmann's pneumatology (or whatever). The whole point is students actually reading and wrestling with the ideas!
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
shadow.hedgie.social
Update: AI Jesus is firmly Chalcedonian but triangulates between Eastern and Western pneumatology

seems like an odd line to draw
shadow.hedgie.social Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · Dec 16
You have to hand it to them
December 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
dougmccrae.bsky.social
Stuart Clark makes a similar point about demonology in "Thinking With Demons" (1997). Today it is considered a pseudoscience (at best) but in the medieval and early modern periods, demons were understood to be part of nature.
But so were the matters themselves. Almost instinctively, modern science refers the deeds of devils and witches to a realm of ‘supernature’ wholly beyond natural laws; the only way to account for them naturalistically today is by complete redescription. As C. S. Lewis wrote, ‘such creatures are not part of the subject matter of “natural philosophy”; if real, they fall under pneumatology, and, if unreal, under morbid psychology.’ This means that demonology, like astrology or alchemy, has invariably been regarded as an ‘occult’ or ‘pseudo’ science and, therefore, incompatible with scientific insight and progress. Usually, reasons other than those intrinsic to it have been sought for its popularity and longevity; it was the product, so it has been said, of lingering superstition, of irrationality, or, worse still, of collective derangement. But the history (as well as the anthropology) of science shows that the perceived boundary between nature and supernature, if it is established at all, is local to cultures, and that it shifts according to tastes and interests. The one now generally in force among the tribes of the West is only as old as the scientific production that goes with it. Before ‘Enlightenment’ and the coming of the ‘new’ science, things were different, metaphysically speaking, and nature was thought to have other limits. In fact, the ontology of the demonic was entirely the reverse of today's. In early modern Europe it was virtually the unanimous opinion of the educated that devils, and, a fortiori, witches, not merely existed in nature but acted according to its laws. They were thought to do so reluctantly and (as we shall see) with a good many unusual, or ‘preternatural’ manipulations of phenomena, yet they were always regarded as being inside the general category of the natural. Devils, wrote one typical witchcraft theorist, ‘cannot advance natural things without natural causes being present’; witches, he deduced, could do nothing ‘that surmounts the forces of nature’. It was what was natural about their alleged behaviour that made it a physical possibility and, thus, believable; what was unnatural was deemed to be impossible and delusory. These were matters of principle for writers on witchcraft; for them, not to accept them was superstitious and irrational. We, on the contrary, have to set aside some of our most automatic assumptions to grasp their significance.
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
mitchell509.bsky.social
It does need a pneumatology imo
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
bigblobape.bsky.social
but also the logic the reformers use to justify it just pisses me off
“the Canon‘s structure is illogical there’s no pneumatology it needs an epiclesis”—cut the malarkey, Jack!
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
troensridder.bsky.social
The Pneumatology he derives from Bulgakov is kind of inscrutable, and idk if I agree with identifying the Holy Spirit with the pneuma God breathed in us in creation, at least so unequivocally. I mean, our reception of the Spirit must mean something beyond just "recognizing our God nature"... no?
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
wordbot.bsky.social
Word of the Hour: Pneumatological - Of or pertaining to pneumatology. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
englishwordbot.bsky.social
The word "pneumatology" on a stylized background
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
ambsseminary.bsky.social
Join the AMBS community to celebrate the publication of Organizing Spirit: Pneumatology, Institutions, and Global Imagination by Jamie Pitts, PhD, Professor of Anabaptist Studies & Director of the Institute of Mennonite Studies! Refreshments will be served, and books will be available for signing.
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
troensridder.bsky.social
I'm still iffy on the pneumatology but I've always been. so that's unsurprising
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
shibbi.bsky.social
Christian dogma covers several other loci as well, but these are the four that are most relevant to me - my personal theology doesn't have much to do with the Holy Spirit, for example, so I don't have anything interesting to say about pneumatology. :3

So what do I have to say admit these four?
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
dongjun-seo.bsky.social
Honoured to be invited as a speaker at the Evangelical Studies Program virtual conference on 'Evangelicalism and the Holy Spirit.' I'll be presenting 'The Holy Spirit and Capitalism: The Making of Yonggi Cho's Pneumatology in the Context of Korea's Economic Growth.'
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
chancebonar.bsky.social
Keep an eye out for my book in the coming weeks!

Just from the TOC, I hope to make it evident that slavery touches every aspect of early Christian thought: theology, pneumatology, ecclesiology, literate labor, ethics, agency, spirit possession, and so much more
August 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
wiederaufnahme.bsky.social
New open access article: In the Wisdom of Solomon, .. the “spirit of wisdom” and the personified Wisdom .. are brought together and developed. [..] The result is the “Angelomorphic Spirit of Wisdom,” a unique development in late Second Temple Jewish pneumatology.
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The Angelomorphic Spirit of Wisdom in the Wisdom of Solomon
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August 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
alexanderchow.bsky.social
Eli’s PhD was looking at the development of pneumatology in tribal theology (northeast India). She offers an intervention drawing on various Asian theologians and the lived pneumatology of Naga revivals.
August 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM