The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life: Historical, Interdisciplinary, and Renewal Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Vondey

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Series: CHARIS: Christianity and Renewal—Interdisciplinary Studies 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Twelve scholars from the biblical, historical, theological, and philosophical disciplines engage in a conversation on the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life. The essays are held together by an enduring focus and concern to explore the relationship between the work of the Holy Spirit and Christian formation, discipleship, personal and social transformation. The book points toward the integration of theory and practice, theology and spirituality, and the mutual interest in fostering dialogue across disciplines and ecclesial traditions.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: The Presence of the Spirit as an Interdisciplinary Concern; Wolfgang Vondey
1. Mapping the Hermeneutical Waters: The Holy Spirit and the Revitalization of Interpretation; Steven B. Sherman
2. Monasticism: Instrument of the Holy Spirit in the Renewal of Today's Church; Greg Peters
3. Absence Makes the Heart Grow: Longing and the Spirit in the Theology of St. Augustine; Daniel Strand
4. Hugh of St. Victor and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit; Lisa Millen
5. A Lutheran Engagement with Wesley on the Work of the Holy Spirit; Cheryl M. Peterson
6. The Allurer of the Soul: The Holy Spirit in Puritan Preaching; David M. Barbee
7. Baptism by Fire: The Work of the Holy Spirit in Pascal's Philosophy; Janelle Aijian
8. The Holy Spirit and the Miraculous: John Wesley's Egalitarian View of the Supernatural and its Problems; Robert Webster
9. Apocalyptic Pneumatology and the Holy Spirits in the Religions: The Contributions of Christoph Blumhardt; Christian T. Collins Winn
10. An Improbable Bond of the Spirit: Historical Perspectives on the Christian Life in Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational Theologies; Joshua D. Reichard
11. The Passion of/for Pentecost: Hermeneutics, Heterology, and the "Hauntology" of the Spirit; B. Keith Putt
Conclusion: Christianity and Renewal - A Plea for Interdisciplinarity; Wolfgang Vondey
Afterword; Amos Yong