Introduction

The following posts formed the parts of an essay written for the Introducing Theology subject at the Brisbane College of Theology.

"To experience the fellowship of the Spirit inevitably carries Christianity beyond itself into the greater fellowship of all God’s creatures" (Moltmann). Discuss and critique.

The fellowship of the Spirit derives from and rests in a Trinitarian understanding of the relationship between God, humanity and creation. The fellowship of the Spirit is the experience of koinonia of relationship within the Trinitarian nature of God, in which believers are drawn into the perichoretic life of God, and participate in the mutual indwelling of the divine persons. It is the experience of the koinonia of relationship among the redeemed members of the true church, enabled and empowered by the working of the same Spirit. But is there a koinonia of the Spirit with all non-human living creatures such as animals and plants, and by extension, the whole of creation?