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• The spirit of loyal-piety, the spirit of humanism, and the spirit of ultimate finality

  Zhao, Jianmin,‏ ‎1963- (Macau Ricci Institute, 2006)
• The Spirit, Change, and Healing: Toward a Spirit-centered Model of Healing

  Decker, Edward E, Jr.; Buker, Bill; Lamp, Jeffrey S (Digital Showcase, 2021-10-19)

  Spirit-centered counseling is an approach to counseling that makes full use of Spirit-centered spirituality as well as techniques and interventions used within Spirit-centered faith groups. An emphasis is always on the importance of being aware of, and experiencing, the Spirit and utilizing this awareness within the counseling endeavor. Three orienting assumptions are delineated to provide direction for the specific practices and methods of Spirit-centered counseling that prepare the way for Spirit-directed changes. Of special importance are the pneumatological imagination, Holy Spirit empowerment, and the development of a trialogical encounter, within which the counselor and the person seeking counseling experience the immanent nature of God through the Spirit’s presence in the counseling endeavor.
• ‘Do not quench the Spirit!’ The discourse of the Holy Spirit in earliest Christianity

  Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte (AOSIS, 2015-03-01)

  <p>The Trinitarian discourse of the 4th and 5th centuries grew out of earlier developments, whilst at the same time reflecting a renewal over against the language of the earliest Christian sources. This article reflects on the way in which early Christianity thought about the Holy Spirit and developed a new discourse on the basis of earlier, Jewish traditions. It situates the development of the idea of the Holy Spirit as God’s presence in past and present within the social history of the developing Christian movement, and shows how this idea was connected to the concept of apostolic succession. Thus, emerging Christianity legitimised itself and its social structures by the theology of the Holy Spirit. Its message was presented as old instead of new, as the Holy Spirit had foretold the Christ event. Its organisation was seen as divinely inspired, because its leaders were thought to be endowed with the Spirit. In this development, the narrative of Luke-Acts has thoroughly influenced the way in which Christianity developed a new discourse to present itself as old.</p>