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In this exciting collection, an array of contemporary theologians reflects on the work of the Holy Spirit in relation to some of the world's most pressing issues and problems. Offering a corrective to disembodied discussions of the Spirit, this book provides a look at the Holy Spirit set loose and sustaining the gift and struggle for life in the midst of today's troubled world. Among other topics, the contributors examine the Spirit's activity in the reading of Scripture, the reality of religiou...

In Wesleyan Pneumatology and Evangelical Mission: Renewing the Spark Jody B. Fleming argues that missiology in a Wesleyan context has been heavily influenced by the Western worldview and needs renewal. Spirituality is central to living in many non-western cultures, integrated with the physical world of everyday life. Wesleyan traditions may need to renew and strengthen the pneumatology found in their mission theory and praxis. As the center of Christianity is shifting to the global south, Pentec...

With his latest book, The Holy Spirit before Christianity, John R. Levison again changes the face and foundation of Christian belief in the Holy Spirit. The categories Christians have used, the boundaries they have created, the proprietary claims they have made - all of these evaporate, now that Levison has looked afresh at Scripture. In a study that is both poignant and provocative, Levison takes readers back five hundred years before Jesus, where he discovers history's first grasp of the Hol...

Jesus said, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you." What kind of difference is the Holy Spirit of God making in your daily life? You may have heard confusing, even conflicting information about who the Spirit is and what He does.  You may feel disconnected from Him, even as you long to experience His dynamic presence and power. Here is the practical help you've been looking for.  With clear, simple teaching straight from the Word of God, Tony Evans shows you how to in...

Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit' is an examination of the doctrines of election and atonement in Karl Barth's 'Church Dogmatics', taking up Barth's own challenge to his reader to surpass his argument and offer a better typological interpretation of the cultic texts. Barth's radical re-working of Calvin's doctrine of election is one of the most important developments in twentieth-century theology. Christ synthesizes for Barth a particular dialectic: the binary structure of God's Yes of e...

This book unpacks the biblical teaching about the Holy Spirit and the development of the Christian doctrine of the Holy Spirit in a clear, coherent and above all, accessible way. It exposes the mindsets which we impose upon the scriptures and Christian doctrine and so distort our understanding and expectation of the Spirit.

'I have discovered that the coming of the Holy Spirit to us and living within us is a gift, the best gift that the Father can give us.' THE HELPER presents the results of the author's own search for the Holy Spirit, and invites every reader to embark on the same quest. Catherine Marshall argues that the Holy Spirit is a real and powerful presence in the lives of believers, and the source of help, guidance and inspiration at all times.

This book is a pneumatological reflection on the use and abuse of the Spirit in light of the abuse of religion within South African Pentecostalism. Both emerging and well-established scholars of South African Pentecostalism are brought together to reflect on pneumatology from various approaches, which includes among others: historical, biblical, migration, commercialisation of religion, discernment of spirits and human flourishing. From a broader understanding of the function of the Holy Spiri...

In The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience, Simeon Zahl presents a fresh vision for Christian theology that foregrounds the relationship between theological ideas and the experiences of Christians. He argues that theology is always operating in a vibrant landscape of feeling and desiring, and shows that contemporary theology has often operated in problematic isolation from these experiential dynamics. He then argues that a theologically serious doctrine of the Holy Spirit not only authorizes bu...