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Ecstasy, Virtue, Learning, and Life in the Spirit: An Agenda for the Future of Pneumatology

By John R. Levison

Book information

Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Year
2013
ISBN
080286788X, 9780802867889
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
287 kB (293547 bytes)
Pages
240\0
Topic
Religion
Time added
2020-04-15 01:03:37

Description

Early Jews and Christians understood the Holy Spirit in a very different way than most Christians understand it today. They understood the spirit of God as something given to all flesh as part of creation -- a spirit no less divine or holy than the spirit one might receive through charismatic endowments.In this book John Levison works to recover that early conception of the Holy Spirit and to embrace the belief that the power of God's spirit pulses in every breath we take. Levison sums up historical and biblical arguments and discusses implications for the church today. "The gift of the spirit is not a moment's work," Levison says. "The gift of the spirit is steady and continuous -- something worth knowing in the struggles that have the potential to shatter life into meaningless shards."

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