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Recent decades have witnessed increased attention on the Holy Spirit, recognizing it as a critical component in Christian thought. While the volume of publications on the Spirit indicate that scholarly discussion about the Spirit is both creative and lively, it does sometimes appear to be diffused across the spectrum of contemporary theological thought. Nowhere does this scattering seem more...

When Tubman sang this song, she was using biblical imagery of God’s deliverance of Israel to encourage her fellow freedom fighters, and it was a signal that the time to leave the plantation was now. Hopkins says that “the use of liberation language indicated that the coast was finally clear for one more soul’s journey to freedom. And it was a joyful song symbolic of praising the power of God’s grace over oppression.”9 It was Tubman’s belief that the same Spirit who liberated Israel will now liberate
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