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REVIEW ARTICLE: ESPRIT SAINT ET L'EGLISE L'Avenir de L'Eglise et de L'rEcumenisme (Actes du symposium organise par L'Academie internationale des Sciences Religieuses; Paris: Fayard, 1969) 350 pp. THIS VOLUME PRESENTS the papers read and discussed at a symposium organized by the International Academy of Religious Sciences held at Heverlei-lez-Louvain in 1966. The literary style, brief papers resuming the thought of an author on a specific point, as well as the purpose of this symposium, ecumenical dialogue, influence greatly the content as well as the quality of such a publication. Since what we have here is a dialogue among experts, knowledge of the specific topics under consideration is presupposed. Most, if not all contributors have already published extensively in their own fields. What they present in this volume are merely certain highlights of a particular aspect of the various questions treated. They themselves make this point repeatedly in the course of the discussions which followed every paper. The reader should keep this in mind as he tries to evaluate the contents of this book. He cannot expect detailed analysis in this type of a work. What he can expect, and what he finds in fact, are the major insights and intuitions of a scholar on a given point, insights which are based on many years of study and research. As for the value of these insights, perhaps the best commentary is to be found in the discussions among peers which follow each paper. Here, either objections are raised, or one or more aspects brought out in the paper are elaborated upon, or else the ecumenical meaning of the findings are expounded upon. In a word, what we find in this book is dialogue in action. Not many solutions are found, but the major points still at issue are discerned and thus an orientation for further research is indicated. A student of Ecumenism will find a wealth of research topics in the present volume. The specific topic of this volume is the Holy Spirit and the Church, a topic which all ecclesiologists will recognize as of prime importance both from the point of view of the notion of the Church and from the point of view of contemporary ecumenical dialogue. We need evoke here merely the questions of the relation between the work of the Spirit and the visible Church, charisma and structure, the roles of Christ and of the Spirit in the Church, etc. The participants in the Symposium chose to treat of the question of the Holy Spirit and the Church according to the Acts of the 483 484 THOMAS R. POTVIN Apostles, St. Paul, Liturgical Tradition, Greek Patristic Theology of the first four centuries, St. Augustine and Augustinianism, the Theology of the Greek Fathers of the "Filioque." The first six papers, then, are in the domain of Positive Theology. Three dogmaticians then treated of the Church as Epiphany of the Holy Spirit, the Mission of the Church, and finally of the Holy Spirit and Christian Anthropology. E. TROCME, "Le Saint-Esprit et l'Eglise d'apres le livre des Actes," 1-27; Discussion, 28-44. The main trust of Professor Trocme's paper is that, although we find the Holy Spirit mentioned some sixty times in Acts, Luke is merely repeating the traditions found in the Early Church without either trying to coordinate them or, still less, presenting a personal pneumatology. In other words, according to this author, Luke is not much of a theologian. Consequently, it would be very difficult to try to extract from the works of Luke a clear notion of the Spirit and of the Church and to establish the relationship which would exist between the two. What Luke is interested in is the progress of the Mission of the faithful seen especially from the point of view of the churches of Pauline tradition. The role of the Spirit in the Mission of the Church is, nevertheless, essential, since it is the Spirit who grants inspired testimony to the disciples in favor of Jesus Christ, which testimony is given either before the people in general or before tribunals. Luke does borrow from tradition the teaching that the Spirit...

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