God's Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul

✍ Scribed by Gordon D. Fee

• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 992
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A most careful and thorough exegetical and theological examination of every Pauline text related to the Holy Spirit, from one of evangelicalisms foremost interpreters of Paul. Fee compellingly demonstrates that Paul understands the Holy Spirit as God's empowering presence in the life of the Church.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER......Page 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 18
AUTHOR'S PREFACE......Page 22
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 26
2 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON USAGE......Page 39
Part 1-Analysis......Page 62
3 THE THESSALONIAN CORRESPONDENCE......Page 64
4 1 CORINTHIANS......Page 106
5 2 CORINTHIANS......Page 307
6 GALATIANS......Page 392
7 ROMANS......Page 497
8 THE CAPTIVITY EPISTLES: PHILEMON AND COLOSSIANS......Page 660
9 THE CAPTIVITY EPISTLES: EPHESIANS......Page 683
10 THE CAPTIVITY EPISTLES: PHILIPPIANS......Page 759
11 THE PASTORAL EPISTLES......Page 780
Part 2-Synthesis......Page 822
Preface to Part II: Finding a Place to Begin......Page 824
12 THE SPIRIT AS ESCHATOLOGICAL FULFILLMENT......Page 828
13 THE SPIRIT AS GOD'S PERSONAL PRESENCE......Page 852
14 THE SOTERIOLOGICAL SPIRIT......Page 871
15 THE SPIRIT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD......Page 895
16 WHERE TO FROM HERE?......Page 921
APPENDIX: THE PAULINE ANTECEDENTS......Page 929
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 942
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 958
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 964
INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES......Page 974