The doctrine of the Spirit: A comparative study on the views of Jürgen Moltmann, Michael Welker and a Pentecostal perspective

MA (Dogmatics), North-West University, Potchefstroom, CampusThe focus of the study is to compare the doctrine of the Spirit of two reformed theologians to a Pentecostal perspective. This research will grasp the main points of the Pneumatological understanding of two twentieth century notable theologians: Michael Welker and Jürgen Moltmann, who dedicated in-depth studies on this topic. Then, to identify the continuities and discontinuities between their understanding and a Pentecostal one. In fact, in the last few decades the need to study the topic of the Holy Spirit has been even greater and reformed theologians have had to face this problem. Beside them, the Pentecostal Movement is a recent movement that highlights the experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and has only recently defined a theology about that. Furthermore, this research, in order to understand the focus, will start from biblical presuppositions and will try to retrace a pneumatological reflection over the centuries to recover the impulse provided by the Pentecostal Movement in the last century.Master