This book articulates a contextual pneumatology from a perspective of the Eastern idea of ch'i (ki in Korean). Rather than understanding the Spirit from a Westernized philosophical perspective, this book utilizes East Asian categories rooted in the I Ching and Asian religions in dialogue with such prominent Western theologians as Barth, Pannenberg, Moltmann and Harvey Cox. The result is an exciting interaction between the Bible, traditions of the West, and experiences of the Spirit rooted in East Asia. Yun argues that the formal dimension of the Spirit (sangjeok) is present and active in all cultures and religions while the material dimension of the Spirit (muljeok) is categorically revealed and embodied through the life of Jesus Christ, the event of Pentecost, and Charisms given to the church. In making his case, he mediates a creative balance between countercultural and exclusivist models on the one hand, and pluralistic and anthropocentric models on the other.

There appears to be a hierarchy of cultures with the West perceiving the East as inferior, so much so that it is referred to simply as 'the Other'. Because today's world is globally interdependent, inter-woven, and integrative, it is pertinent to be open to the cultural, spiritual, and religious understandings of the East

Spirit Wind, a collaborative investigation into the works and person of the Holy Spirit, clearly and richly demonstrates diversity in theological perspectives but unity in the Christian faith. All theological discussions should aim at humbly respecting theological distinctiveness while sincerely encouraging theological conversations. Spirit Wind offers itself to achieve just that. Spirit Wind consists of nine chapters written by nine Chinese theologians, born in the Orient and trained in the West, who are now serving passionately as seminary professors in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, or the United States. Each author endeavors to explain the person and works of the Holy Spirit not only from Chinese standpoints but also from biblical, historical, and cultural/pastoral perspectives, and yet all chapters are theological in nature. No theologian claims to capture all matters about the Spirit, but every author of this book is captivated by the powerful presence, sovereign freedom, and beautiful operations of the Holy Spirit. You will be, too!

This second edition of the Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms provides a comprehensive guide to nearly 7,000 theological terms, 1,000 more terms than the first edition. McKim's succinct definitions cover a broad range of theological studies and related disciplines: contemporary theologies, biblical studies, church history, ethics, feminist theology, global theologies, hermeneutics, liberation theology, liturgy, ministry, philosophy, philosophy of religion, postcolonial theology, social sciences, spiritually, worship, and Protestant, Reformed, and Roman Catholic theologies. This new edition also includes cross-references that link readers to other related terms, commonly used scholarly abbreviations and abbreviations for canonical and deuterocanonical texts, an annotated bibliography, and a new introductory section that groups together terms and concepts, showing where they fit within particular theological categories. No other single volume provides the busy student, and the theologically experienced reader, with such easy access to so many theological definitions.

This volume is a compilation of messages given by noted Chinese pastor/author Watchman Nee at various times and places during his illustrious ministry. All relate to the communion of the Holy Spirit.

Some people can imagine a monkey someday becoming a man-in-nature, and imagine the man who may become -in nature- an angel (and even more than an angel). Transcendence means going beyond any limits or restrictions exceed a certain level. A theme of the most musing is the concept of man as a being able to overcome their own barriers and become apparent more than matter, something more than death, more than chemistry. Is that actually possible? All the walls that appear at the beginning of these approaches run into the paradigm of the death of the body: the biological vehicle. A lack of strong evidence, or fully convincing, what happens then to this point when it comes to our mind, our consciousness, our soul or our spirit, the life of most human become to a frustrated career limited by enjoy a moment of pleasure that can give the senses, even if an analytical mind would know judge that there is an invisible referee of causes and effects that go beyond the visual phenomena, and that our subconscious warns us cautious about the possibility of a trial in the Hereafter. What if we discover that everything we think we know about the universe is nothing but an illusion, a holographic projection quantum in various dimensions, created by a Mind of which we are an intrinsic part -incomprehensibly with the naked eye-? Death, state that we perceive as traumatic and totally end, would be part of this illusory dream, a misconception of our own mind. While this would be riddles within riddles that with effort and will be resolved so that man knows his true identity and pre-existence. What if we knew that we are not this body we look in the mirror, but far from these senses of physical there is hiding an immortal body that is an individualized part of one great consciousness experiencing a psychic Matrix with phenomena that seem real? So we could understand differently the cosmos, to assume that we are imprisoned in a lower avatar subject to laws of a multiverse full of mazes. We were part of a large number of souls who come from another universe, and experiencing an unreality artificial creations based on ego of the Collective Mind of which we are part. Within these almost limitless experiences, we are subject to various invisible laws that neither animals nor men, nor angels, nor gods can avoid, and which require a balance between Light and Chaos in all universes, galaxies, dimensions, star systems, densities of vibration, planets and planes of reality. Life and death, how it feels in them, being such a seemingly real dream, playing part of a predetermined script where cause and effect and Destiny, on these, throw the soul to different scenarios whose antagonism is precisely our criterion of "Life" and "Death", each as area and / or circumstance sphere of competence and the time lapse is responsible within Time and Space. Maya is just a cosmos behind a veil to be pierced. We must not fall into the deception of assuming that we are only a chemical result of random and haphazard processes have no role or existential purpose except survival no longer exist. Big mistake, fatal fallacies of ego. Mind as creator of all ... Light as principle of the vibration of the cosmic energy of the Great Logos who becomes aware of itself ... duality as reasoning of separation ... a vehicle of vital force within the range of power light ... multiple life experiences ... a death that is not death, death that is supposedly death ... transcendence, lighting awakening consciousness sleep created by ourselves ... and unification with the One that we've never left. Welcome to the Resurrection way before to die.