This talk comes right out of issues that I have been grappling with in recent months largely through documents and talks I have had to work on, especially the ICCRS document on baptism in the Spirit, but also two papers evaluating the new charismatic churches from a Catholic standpoint.
It is the issue of the relationship between the new work of the Holy Spirit in the Renewal and the whole work of the Spirit throughout the centuries, the relationship between the new and original on the one hand and the Catholic tradition on the other hand.
This paper is then more theological than maybe many of the talks you have heard.
But I make no apology for this, because without vigorous theological reflection in faith, we will be condemned to rather superficial presentations of the Renewal. |