James K.A. Smith: In thanksgiving for the Life and Ministry of Clark Pinnock, 1937-2010

I was especially encouraged that he was willing to follow the Spirit into foreign territory, and as I was making my pilgrimage to the pentecostal tradition, I remember hearing reports of Pinnock’s visits to the renewal happening at Toronto’s Airport Vineyard–a sure sign to other theologians that Pinnock had gone over the edge. But the fruit of his pilgrimage was Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit–a book that quite simply gave me hope.

While Pinnock and I would disagree on all sorts of matters, I’m grateful for his model of courageous, faithful curiosity in the service of Christ.

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