…we have had in
recent years a Jesus movement and a charismatic movement. The one has almost disappeared and the other
is threatening to run out of steam, perhaps because each is in a different way
inadequate to the gospel, which his basically a Father movement. It is not first a Jesuology (a doctrine
about Jesus) or a pneumatology (a doctrine about the Spirit) but it is a
theology or even a patrology - a doctrine about God the Father. It starts not with the cross of Jesus or with
the gift of the Spirit, but with the Father who so loved the World that he gave
his Son in his Spirit.
Thomas Smail
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