In this 2018 lecture, Ephraim Radner critiques modern pneumatology for implicitly denying the “difficult givenness” of this life and subverting our human creatureliness. He argues instead for a truthful, compassionate “pneumatic realism” that takes into account the world as it really is, with all of its existential complexities and sorrows — one that takes as its model the incarnate Christ. Only this personified “Amen” to our lives can enable us, in this nihilistic world of “elective existence,” to choose life and to keep choosing it. God’s apology for life, he says, is enough.
This lecture is provided courtesy of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding. The full title of the lecture is “Spirit of Life and Death: Modern Pneumatology and the Struggle against Mortality.”
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