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Introduction

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Spirit, Saints and Immortality

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The claim has often been made over the centuries that the presence of the spirit of God is an anticipation of immortality. John Wesley, for instance, says in a sermon:

The Spirit … is some portion of, as well as preparation for, a life in God, which we are to enjoy hereafter. The gift of the Holy Spirit looks full to the resurrection; for then is the life of God completed in us.1

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  1. Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (London, 1957), p.179; p.230.

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  2. See Andrew Louth, Theology and Spirituality (Fairacres, 1976), p.3.

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  3. F. Crosson, in C. F. Delaney (ed.) Religion and Rationality (London and Notre Dame, 1979 ), p. 154.

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  4. G. Curtis, in his introduction to M. Chavchavadze (ed.), Man’s Concern with Holiness (London, 1970 ), p. 13.

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  5. For example in F. von Hügel, Letters to a Niece (London, 1928), p.xxxvi.

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  6. John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua ( Everyman edn, London, 1955 ), p. 150.

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  7. Ian Ramsey, ‘Theology Today and Spirituality Today’, in Eric James (ed.), Spirituality for Today (London, 1968 ), p. 76.

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  8. Kenneth Leech, Soul Friend (London, 1977), pp.35f.

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  9. Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (London, 1962), pp.197f.

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  10. Hans Urs von Balthasar, in Word and Redemption (New York, 1965), Chs 3–4. These essays are translated from his Verbum Caro. Skizzen zur Theologie i, part 2.

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    Patrick Sherry

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Sherry, P. (1984). Introduction. In: Spirit, Saints and Immortality. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06835-7_1

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