Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
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This article constitutes the continuation and conclusion of an exegetical meditation by Father Lev Gillet on the encounter of Jesus with the Samaritan woman (John 4). Belonging to the genre of spiritual meditation grounded in Scripture, the text successively comments on the themes of living water, the five husbands, worship in spirit and in truth, and entry into Pentecostal life. The central idea is that this encounter figures the passage from inner dispersion to the unity of the soul, and from external religion to a living relationship with Christ through the Holy Spirit. The theological contribution of the article lies in the articulation between spiritual anthropology — the integration of the soul as a condition for authentic worship — and pneumatology, the Samaritan woman being presented as an inaugural figure of Pentecostal life and the first messenger of the universality of salvation.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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