The Spirit of God Transforming Life: The Reformation and Theology of the Holy Spirit

✍ Scribed by Paul S. Chung

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reexamines the central themes of Reformation theology. Chung considers the energy of the Spirit as the Spiritus Creator within the natural world, the Spirit’s place in the Trinity, the role of the Spirit in election, the controversial question of the third use of the law, and the effects of the Spirit for the life of the world. In addressing these and many other issues, this book clearly and carefully describes the fundamental shape of Reformation thinking and introduces the reader to what was and is at stake in the Reformation’s insistence on the centrality of the Gospel.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 17
Spirit of Life: Spirituality and Ethical Life......Page 21
Martin Luther......Page 22
John Calvin......Page 27
Organizational Themes in the Study of the Spirit of God: Spirituality and Ethical Life......Page 33
1 TheSpiritus Creator......Page 37
The Spirit, Life-Giver......Page 39
God Seen in Light of Natural Knowledge......Page 43
Reformation and Natural Theology......Page 45
2 The Spirit of the Triune God......Page 53
Luther and the Doctrine of the Trinity......Page 54
Calvin’s Theology of the Trinity......Page 60
Luther and Calvin: Hypostatic Union in Jesus Christ......Page 62
Trinitarian Theology in Ecumenical Context......Page 68
3 The Spirit and Christ-Union......Page 87
Martin Luther and Union with Christ......Page 90
John Calvin: Christian Life in Christ-Union......Page 97
Calvin’s View of Election......Page 104
Karl Barth’s View of Election in Luther and Calvin......Page 106
Luther’s Principle of Law and Gospel......Page 113
Calvin’s View of the Threefold Use of the Law......Page 118
Critical Review of the Third Use of the Law......Page 123
Theology of the Word of God in Luther and Barth......Page 129
Luther: Church as Creature of the Gospel......Page 135
Universal Priesthood and Social Economic Diakonia......Page 140
Calvin: Church as Mother of Believers......Page 148
Calvin and Economic Justice......Page 153
Eucharistic Theology in Lutheran-Reformed Dialogue......Page 159
Controversy on Real Presence......Page 161
Luther in Dispute with Roman Catholicism and Zwingli......Page 164
Luther: God’s Promise in the Sacrament......Page 166
Calvin’s View of the Substance of Christ’s Body......Page 168
For Sacramental Unity: The Universal Church and Promise of Eschatology......Page 171
Afterword: Max Weber’s View of Reformation and Capitalism......Page 175
Notes......Page 185
Bibliography......Page 203
F......Page 209
S......Page 210
Z......Page 211