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The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Contemporary Thought
Ficek, Jerome L.
Ficek, Jerome L.
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"The doctrine once described by David Friedrich Strauss as the "Achilles heel" of Protestant theological systems is increasingly attracting the attention of leading theologians today. As early as 1940 in a Journal of Religion article, Edwin A. Aubrey raised the question of the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the religious community, concluding his analysis with the provocative question, "Is it conceivable that here we have a doctrine which is the hub of the whole contribution of Christian thought to the cultural problem of our time?" This doctrine referred to as the "step child and by G. J. Sirks as the "Cinderella" doctrine of theology was the subject of Paul Tillich's Auburn Alumni Lectures of 1958, to be published as the first part of Volume Three of his Systematic Theology. President Henry P. Van Dusen after a vaca~ion in ~he Caribbean reminded us that those whose special interest is the Holy Spirit today constitute "the Third Force" in Christendom-a force of tremendous vitaJity, responsible for the great missionary outreach of the past one hundred and fifty_years, and one for which the ecumenical movement must find a place"
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1960
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