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Spirit and Kingdom in the Writings of Luke and Paul: An Attempt to Reconcile these Concepts is unavailable, but you can change that!

The relationship between Spirit and Kingdom is a relatively unexplored area in Lucan and Pauline studies. This book offers a fresh perspective of two biblical writers on the subject. It explores the difference between Luke’s and Paul’s understanding of the Spirit by examining the specific question of the relationship of the concept of the Spirit to the concept of the Kingdom of God in each...

pneumatology to the extent we can discover in Paul. Compared with the Jewish outlook on pneumatology indicated above, Luke does not portray the Spirit as the source of life-giving wisdom or as the life of the kingdom in its totality as in Paul. Luke fails to associate the blessings of the kingdom (new life, sonship, righteousness/justification, resurrection, ethical power) with the Spirit in its wider implications like Paul. We have seen that these blessings are rather closely integral to the kingdom
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