Organizing Spirit

Pneumatology, Institutions, and Global Imagination

Jamie Pitts (Anabaptist Mennonite Seminary, USA)

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T.& T.Clark Ltd
12 June 2025

Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches; Christian theology; Christian institutions & organisations

Series: T&T Clark Studies in Anabaptist Theology and Ethics

Contemporary theologians tend to associate the Holy Spirit with the formation of local communities, social movements, and fluid relational networks—and not with institutions such as denominations or global church bodies. In this work, Jamie Pitts argues that this pneumatological-sociological picture misses important aspects of the Spirit’s work.

Pitts draws on a wide range of theological and theoretical resources to depict the Spirit as organizing the complex, dynamic, and relationally entangled structures that constitute creation. Human organizing that seeks to participate in the Spirit can take a variety of analogous structural forms, including formal organizations or institutions. Organizational participation in the Spirit is not a function of an organization’s scale, mobility, or relative informality, but rather of its practical orientation toward the Spirit’s goals of life, solidarity, healing, and inclusive justice. A series of case studies clarifies and extends the implications of the argument in connection to organizing for environmental, gender, sexual, and racial justice. In the final chapter, Pitts addresses the role of a political theology of the organizing Spirit in imagining organizational alternatives to the global neoliberal order.

By: Jamie Pitts (Anabaptist Mennonite Seminary USA)
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780567712592
ISBN 10: 0567712591
Series: T&T Clark Studies in Anabaptist Theology and Ethics
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 12 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jamie Pitts is Professor of Anabaptist Studies at Anabaptist Mennonite Seminary, USA. He is also Director of the Institute of Mennonite Studies, and Editor of Anabaptist Witness.

Reviews for Organizing Spirit: Pneumatology, Institutions, and Global Imagination

A meaty book that brings the Holy Spirit down to earth with careful attention to concrete environments, historical organizations, and specific circumstances—yet without identifying the Spirit idolatrously with those realities. The book abounds in helpful distinctions and surprising comparisons. * Eugene F. Rogers, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA *