探討神恩復興運動的神恩範圍──以天主教角度切入

Exploring the Charismatic Spectrum of Charismata: From the Catholic Viewpoint

本文以天主教角度探索當今神恩復興運動的神恩範圍。第一部份簡單介紹約在一世紀前，在美國開始的世界性聖神神恩復興運動。似乎，這史無前例的聖神運動，是上天賜給今日因現代俗化而致的基督宗教危機。可以說，此危機之所以產生，主要的原因是信徒們，極度對生活上活生生的天主及其神恩缺少經驗。因此，本文第二部分分為六個範圍，精簡探討神恩運動多個不同的神恩：（1）身為非受造聖寵的天主；（2）聖神的聖化聖寵或恩典；（3）聖神的九種果實；（4）聖神神恩的諸個職務；（5）身為基督奧體的聖教會；（6）聖神的受洗。之後，第三部份是本文的結語。作為一個普遍性的探討，本文的目標讀者是一般受過大專或大學教育的天主教徒。誠然，希冀這簡介更可成為其他對這普世神恩復興運動發生興趣的先進之開端。

Divided into three sections, the infrastructure of this paper is simple. As the first section, the introduction briefly reviews the current worldwide Charismatic-Pentecostal renewal which began in the U.S.A. about a century ago from the Catholic viewpoint. Apparently, this unprecedented renewal movement of the Holy Spirit is an extraordinary answer of Providence to the crisis of Christian faith adversely caused by modern secularization. Among others, one may say that this crisis principally consists in the severe lack of personal experience of the living God and His spectrum of charismata (a Greek word, the plural form of χαρισμα or charisma, meaning gifts in general1 ). Therefore, the second section seeks to explore succinctly the variegated spectrum of charismata in the Catholic Charismatic renewal. Systematically, this spectrum consists of six areas: (1) God the Uncreated Grace; (2) Sanctifying gifts or charismata of the Holy Spirit; (3) Nine-fold fruit of the Holy Spirit; (4) Charismatic gift-ministries of the Holy Spirit; (5) The Church as the Mystical Body of Christ; and (6) Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Afterwards, this exploration ends with some concluding comments as the third section of this paper. Intended as a general exploration, its targeted audience is a college-level Catholic community. However, it is hoped that such an introductory investigation would become a curtain-raiser also to many others interested in the general nature of this recent worldwide Catholic renewal movement.