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Pneumatology: The Holy Spirit in Ecumenical, International, and Contextual Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the most exciting recent developments in theology has been an unprecedented interest in the person and work of the Holy Spirit. In fact, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen describes this phenomenon as a “pneumatological renaissance.” But such discussion should be informed, he contends, by two overarching principles. First, we must acknowledge the variety of approaches to the experience of the Holy...

masculine noun, “spiritual man;35 and (3) a neuter noun, “the spiritual things.”36 At least sometimes in Paul’s writings the ambiguity of the term is evident, as in 1 Corinthians 12:1. Gordon Fee summarizes Paul’s theology of the Spirit as follows:37 1. The Spirit plays an absolutely crucial role in Paul’s Christian experience and his understanding of the gospel. 2. Crucial to the Spirit’s central role is the thoroughly eschatological framework within which Paul both experienced and understood the
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