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The Church in the Age of the Holy Spirit.

From: Cross Currents  |  Date: 3/22/2000  |  Author: McNEILL, JOHN J.

The Church authorities do not know what God wants of us.

A prophetic Cistercian Abbot in Italy named Joachim of Flores foresaw in the early thirteenth century the total transformation of the Catholic Church and a new form of spiritual life in which the Holy Spirit would speak directly to the human heart without ecclesiastical mediation. He believed that there is a sequence of historic stages in the Trinitarian God's self-revelation over time. The first stage of that ...

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