The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things: Pneumatology in Paul and Jurgen Moltmann - Softcover

Beck, David T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0227173325 ISBN 13: 9780227173329

Publisher: James Clarke & Co, 2010

Synopsis

This book sets out to change the starting point for theological conversation about the work of the Holy Spirit. Protestant theologians have associated the Spirit's work almost entirely with believers and/or the church. The Spirit's role is to apply Christ's atoning work to God's people. In contrast, early Christian reflection saw the Spirit's main role as bringing about the eschatological rule of God, which reaches beyond individuals or even the church and extends to all creation. This volume explores the shape pneumatology takes when we develop the theology of the Holy Spirit within an eschatological framework that has a universal scope and an unlimited history. When we do so, we find that pneumatology deriving from questions about what the Spirit does for us needs to give way to pneumatology that derives from questions about how the Spirit can draw us into the saving history of the triune God.

About this title

About the Author:

T. David Beck is Pastor of Christian Formation at King's Harbor Church, Redondo Beach, California. He completed his doctorate at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Review:

"Pastor of a non-denominational church in southern California, Beck says that the doctrine of the Holy Spirit has swung back and forth between an institutional tendency and an experiential tendency in Protestantism since the Reformation. Both make significant contributions to the ongoing understanding of the person and work of the Holy Spirit, he says, but also come with unwanted baggage. Rather than try to rehabilitate one or the other, he proposes Christian eschatology as a third option that comes not from the Protestant tradition but from the original language of pneumatology." Book News Inc, Reference - Research Book News - October 2011 "This is a very stimulating treatment of the relationship between eschatology and pneumatology and readers will find it a useful, insightful introduction to Moltmann in particular." Peter C. Orr, in Theological Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: James Clarke & Co
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0227173325
• ISBN 13: 9780227173329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277