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Covenant, Community, and the Spirit: A Trinitarian Theology of Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

This comprehensive textbook by theologian Robert Sherman brings together two perennial issues in Christian theology: the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and ecclesiology. It demonstrates the importance of the Holy Spirit in empowering the being and mission of the church and shows how the church’s identity and calling are embedded in the larger covenantal purposes of the triune God. Accessibly written...

God summons the Church to proclaim in Christ through the power of the Spirit a transcendent life of exhilarating grace and love, to embody a world of forgiveness and reconciliation, and to offer a foretaste of reality so glorious and compelling that most people would find it inconceivable. The Church that God calls us to become is—of course!—a community that befits God’s own triune communion and majesty. And yet that Church is so much more than most people would even dare to imagine,
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