• Sanctification gap is a gap of knowledge, teaching, and practices of spiritual transformation between the real spiritual life and ideal spiritual life. The five typical responses to the sanctification gap are pretense, despair, programmatic and personal solutions, moral formation, and ministry activism. Pretense is pretending that one’s spiritual life is going smoothly, even though one feels the emptiness due to sanctification gap. Despair is the feeling that results from the sanctification gap when one cannot achieve the ideal, desired spiritual level. Programmatic and personal solutions are finding a personal solution to this spiritual problem. Moral formation is an attempt to morally form oneself into the ideal spiritual level using willpower.
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When there was a development of Protestant Evangelicalism, they became experts on conversion and justification. Luther did not quite support the idea of spiritual growth and only focused on the cross. Therefore, there were no efforts for spiritual sanctification. However, Puritans asked for evidence of faith for salvation which was external growth. Thus, in the nineteenth century, wishing to move away from the Puritans’ ideas, revivalists disconnected sanctification from conversion and focused on faith alone for salvation. However, they did not acknowledge sanctification once they disengaged from Puritan’s theory, creating a sanctification …show more content…
In other words, it is the teaching and knowing of the Word so that we can be transformed more like Christ. The second definition of spiritual theology is a spiritual discipline in an attempt to integrate scriptural teachings on sanctification and empirical study of Holy Spirit’s actual work. Empirical study includes the actual experience of the Holy Spirit’s doing in regards to sanctification.
• Spiritual theology is essential to the development of a theology of spiritual formation because according to Col. 1:28-29, in order to complete every man in Christ, we must admonish and teach them with all wisdom. Thus, spiritual theology is applied to teaching and discipline in hope to transform believers into the image of Christ. Spiritual theology can provide a deep biblical theology of sanctification and provide practical ways to practice spiritual discipline by working as a bridge to connect theology and practice in real
When there was a development of Protestant Evangelicalism, they became experts on conversion and justification. Luther did not quite support the idea of spiritual growth and only focused on the cross. Therefore, there were no efforts for spiritual sanctification. However, Puritans asked for evidence of faith for salvation which was external growth. Thus, in the nineteenth century, wishing to move away from the Puritans’ ideas, revivalists disconnected sanctification from conversion and focused on faith alone for salvation. However, they did not acknowledge sanctification once they disengaged from Puritan’s theory, creating a sanctification …show more content…
In other words, it is the teaching and knowing of the Word so that we can be transformed more like Christ. The second definition of spiritual theology is a spiritual discipline in an attempt to integrate scriptural teachings on sanctification and empirical study of Holy Spirit’s actual work. Empirical study includes the actual experience of the Holy Spirit’s doing in regards to sanctification.
• Spiritual theology is essential to the development of a theology of spiritual formation because according to Col. 1:28-29, in order to complete every man in Christ, we must admonish and teach them with all wisdom. Thus, spiritual theology is applied to teaching and discipline in hope to transform believers into the image of Christ. Spiritual theology can provide a deep biblical theology of sanctification and provide practical ways to practice spiritual discipline by working as a bridge to connect theology and practice in real