Book celebration: Organizing Spirit: Pneumatology, Institutions, and Global Imagination
Published: November 13, 2025
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 9:45–11 a.m.
AMBS Library Gallery
Join the AMBS campus community to celebrate the publication of Organizing Spirit: Pneumatology, Institutions, and Global Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2025) by Jamie Pitts, PhD, Professor of Anabaptist Studies and Director of the Institute of Mennonite Studies!
The book is Volume 4 in the Studies in Anabaptist Theology and Ethics series, which is published jointly by T&T Clark and the Institute of Mennonite Studies, AMBS’s research agency.
Refreshments will be served, and books will be available for signing. There will be brief remarks at 10 a.m.
About the book
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. He 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.
“This is one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve encountered in the last decade. It leads me to wonder: Have we underestimated the way in which God’s Spirit can act through institutions? What does it mean for us to take seriously the Spirit’s agency in our imperfect world? Highly recommended.” — Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
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