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The work of practical theologian James E. Loder, Jr. (1931-2001)
deserves a wider audience. For more than forty years, he developed
and exercised an interdisciplinary methodology that identified
patterns of correlation in the fields of psychology, educational
theory, phenomenology, epistemology, and physics, producing a
compelling theological vision that centers on the person and work
of the Holy Spirit engaging and transforming human life. At his
untimely death in November 2001, Loder was the Mary D. Synnott
Professor of Philosophy of Christian Education at Princeton
Theological Seminary, where he lectured primarily in the areas of
human development and the philosophy of education. This book
introduces and examines, explores and untangles the complexity of
Loder's thought in order to make it more accessible to a broader
audience. At the core of Loder's work is a relational
phenomenological pneumatology of inestimable value to the
theologian engaged in the ongoing renewal of the church. The
Christian life is preeminently relational, distinguished by a
relationship with God constituted by Jesus Christ, and sustained by
the Holy Spirit. Relationality, Loder claims, takes place in and
through the life of the Holy Spirit who operates within a
complementary relationship with the human spirit, through an
analogia spiritus: a profound, transformational interrelation of
the Holy Spirit and the human spirit. The Holy Spirit, intimately
connected to the person and work of Christ, takes up and extends
the work begun in the incarnation by enfleshing the presence of
Christ, thus transforming human life. Loder is distinctive for
articulating a pneumatology that incorporates 'how' the self
participates in the relationship and the way the self, through the
relationship, comes to have a full knowledge of itself, the world,
and God. It is precisely the logic of this Christomorphic dynamic
that has extraordinary implications for the way we attempt to
fathom the depths and convey the meaning of Christian experience.
Loder's relational phenomenological pneumatology contains rich and
principally unrecognized resources for providing new frameworks for
the Christian life.
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