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On the theological status of experience in seminary formation

On the theological status of experience in seminary formation 1126321 ATR0010.1177/00033286221126321Anglican Theological ReviewMacDougall research-article2022 Round Table on Simeon Zahl’s The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience Anglican Theological Review 2022, Vol. 104(4) 426 –435 On the theological status © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions of experience in seminary https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286221126321 DOI: 10.1177/00033286221126321 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr formation Scott MacDougall Church Divinity School of the Pacific, USA Keywords discernment, experience, formation, Holy Spirit, pneumatology One of the very many favors that Simeon Zahl does for us in his excellent new book, The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience, is trace the history of a highly influential strand of thought related to human experience within Protestant theology. That trajec- tory starts with a reasonable suspicion of the role that experience can or should play in theologizing but ends by attempting to deny any meaningful place for experience, not only in producing theology but in Christian life and practice altogether. Zahl’s helpful and convincing narration of this development is central to a core component of his overall project: to argue that while the concerns that animate theologians who stand in this line are quite legitimate and worth continuing to take seriously, the attempt to totally eliminate experience from theologizing is both an unnecessary overcorrection to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

On the theological status of experience in seminary formation

MacDougall, Scott
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 104 (4): 10 – Nov 1, 2022
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1126321 ATR0010.1177/00033286221126321Anglican Theological ReviewMacDougall research-article2022 Round Table on Simeon Zahl’s The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience Anglican Theological Review 2022, Vol. 104(4) 426 –435 On the theological status © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions of experience in seminary https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286221126321 DOI: 10.1177/00033286221126321 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr formation Scott MacDougall Church Divinity School of the Pacific, USA Keywords discernment, experience, formation, Holy Spirit, pneumatology One of the very many favors that Simeon Zahl does for us in his excellent new book, The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience, is trace the history of a highly influential strand of thought related to human experience within Protestant theology. That trajec- tory starts with a reasonable suspicion of the role that experience can or should play in theologizing but ends by attempting to deny any meaningful place for experience, not only in producing theology but in Christian life and practice altogether. Zahl’s helpful and convincing narration of this development is central to a core component of his overall project: to argue that while the concerns that animate theologians who stand in this line are quite legitimate and worth continuing to take seriously, the attempt to totally eliminate experience from theologizing is both an unnecessary overcorrection to

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Published: Nov 1, 2022

Keywords: discernment; experience; formation; Holy Spirit; pneumatology

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