On the Road to Emmaus

theological and devotional musings by Richard Liantonio

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The Spirit of the Resurrection Part 2: Gnosticism and Schizoid Spirituality

23 June, 2007 (16:39) | Pentecost, Pneumatology (Spirit), Theology | 3 comments

In the first part of this series I discussed my desire to take some time in this Pentecost season to give extended reflection to the person and work of the Holy Spirit. In this post, I would like to back track a little and simply give some general thoughts on the path I would like [...]

The Spirit of the Resurrection

13 June, 2007 (16:47) | Christian Year, Pentecost, Pneumatology (Spirit), Theology | No comments

Following my last post concerning Pentecost, I want to spend some of this season following Pentecost offering meditations on the Holy Spirit. Specifically, the direction I want to go is developing a spirituality and an understanding of life in the Spirit that accords with the primary event of Christian faith, the resurrection of Jesus from [...]

Pentecost – The Coming of the Holy Spirit

2 June, 2007 (16:54) | Christian Year, Pentecost, Pneumatology (Spirit), Theology | No comments

This past Sunday was Pentecost, a day on which believers for many, many years have celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit to dwell with and within the people of God.
Even before it was a celebration of the Spirit coming from heaven, it was commemorated by Jews for the coming of God’s law, “from heaven” [...]

And so it begins…

31 October, 2006 (03:16) | Personal | No comments

This is my first and rather uneventful entry in my new blog. I figure for such a moment I should do nothing more or less than plot my course. I like to think of myself as a pilgrim, living in a world of sorrow, pain, death and decay with my sights set on a Day [...]

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