Pneumatology: A Guide for the Perplexed

by Castelo, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780567461650
• ISBN10: 0567461653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-16
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

This guide aims to elaborate and constructively engage some of the ongoing dogmatic challenges within the field of Christian pneumatology. Rather than a strict survey, the book largely represents a collection of working proposals on a number of relevant themes, including cosmology, mediation, the nature and role of Spirit-baptism, and discernment.

For those who have found pneumatology frustrating and confusing, the book can serve as an aid to clarify some of the most crucial matters at stake in the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and in turn provide some ways forward amidst the morass of possibilities available.

Author Biography

Daniel Castelo is Associate Professor of Theology at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, WA, USA. He is the author of The Apathetic God (winner of the Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2011) and the forthcoming Theological Theodicy.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 - Facing the Wind: Challenges and Expectations within Pneumatology
2 - The Shape of Spirit-talk: Biblical Tags, Patterns, and Themes
3 - The Testimony of the Spirit: Pneumatology in the First Centuries
4 - Spirit and Life: Creation and Cosmology
5 - In the Spirit: Mediation
6 - Receiving the Spirit: Spirit-baptism and Subsequence
7 - Guided by the Spirit: Discernment
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index