The Lord Is the Spirit. John A. Studebaker

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href="#ulink_bc4650c7-8df6-5953-8318-2913cff5f39d">132 Hume challenged religious “authority” by attacking the validity of making empirically demonstrable statements about God. Kant was helpful to the Christian concept of authority in some ways, but his argument that theology must be based only upon moral laws meant for the “modern man” that God could be known only through rational means, if at all. As a result, many groups throughout the modern period “hungered” for a new sense of the Spirit and decried that almost all traditional approaches left them only half full. Anabaptists, for example, believed themselves to “possess” the Spirit and sought a more pronounced doctrine of the Spirit’s interpretive authority (thereby rejecting Lutheran and Reformed teaching regarding authority). Quakers held that the “authority” of Church and Scripture must yield to the Spirit’s “inner light” of immediate revelation as the final authority for Christian theology and life. Pentecostal and charismatic groups at times disconnected the Spirit from the Word completely, looking for an experience that lay beyond the teaching of Scripture. This modern landscape was often shaped by a shift in the notion of “the priesthood of the believer,” which now meant that the individual was no longer bound by an authoritarian Church and was free to use his or her own intellectual and spiritual capacities for discerning truth. According to Livingston, the “modern age” brought a renewed awareness and trust in each person’s own capacities.

      Friedrich Schleiermacher

      Carl Henry


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