THE SPIRIT according to JESUS
JACK LEVISON
a division of Baker Publishing Group
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Levison, John R., author.
Title: An unconventional God : the Spirit according to Jesus / Jack Levison.
Description: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2020. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020007053 | ISBN 9781540961198 (paperback) | ISBN 9781540963437 (casebound)
Subjects: LCSH: Holy Spirit—Biblical teaching. | Bible. Gospels—Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Classification: LCC BT121.3 .L49 2020 | DDC 231/.3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020007053
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations labeled CEB are from the Common English Bible. © Copyright 2011 by the Common English Bible. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Scripture quotations marked MSG are taken from THE MESSAGE, copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Scripture quotations labeled NETS are from A New English Translation of the Septuagint, © 2007 by the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Unless otherwise indicated, all translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls are from F. García Martínez and E. J. C. Tigchelaar, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Study Edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1997–98).
1. Spirit and the Swell of Expectation
2. Spirit, Fire, and a Vital Message
3. Spirit and the Sway of Baptism
4. Spirit and the Torment of Temptation
5. Spirit, Promise, Praise, and Prayer
6. Spirit and the Threat of Blasphemy
7. Spirit and the Hazard of Hostility
8. Spirit, New Birth, and Living Water
9. Spirit and Inspired Memories
Appendix: Relevant References to pneuma in the Canonical Gospels
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About An Unconventional God: The Spirit according to JesusPopular author Jack Levison offers a fresh take on the Holy Spirit through a careful reading of every reference to the Spirit in the Gospels. Viewed through the lens of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection, the Spirit shows up at odd times and in odd teachings—in desert sojourns, a strange saying about scorpions and snakes, and puzzling sayings about birth from above and springs from below. Grounded in scholarship yet accessible and inviting, this companion volume to Levison’s A Boundless God analyzes key aspects of Jesus’s experience of the Holy Spirit, offering nuggets of insight on every page. |
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