The Spirit and Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology

by Marshall, I. Howard; Rabens, Volker; Bennema, Cornelis

• ISBN13: 9780802867537
• ISBN10: 0802867537
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-30
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

This volume gathers writings about the Spirit and Christ by notable scholars including Richard Bauckham, D. A. Carson, James Dunn, and many others. Covering topics that are relevant for the worldwide church today - the life-giving work of the Spirit, the Spirit in Luke and Acts, the gift of the Spirit in John 19-20, pneumatology and justification, community life through the Spirit, and more - the twenty essays included will be a welcome resource for scholars and ministers. The Spirit and Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology is also a fitting tribute to honoree Max Turner, whose outstanding scholarship has focused on pneumatology and Christology. Book jacket.

Author Biography

I. Howard Marshall is professor emeritus of New Testament exegesis and honorary research professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His many books include New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel and Beyond the Bible: Moving from Scripture to Theology. Volker Rabens is research scholar of the Kte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religions" and lecturer in New Testament at Bochum University, Germany. His publications include The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul. Cornelis Bennema is associate professor of New Testament at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, India. His books include Encountering Jesus and Excavating John's Gospel.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Editors' Foreword	p. xiv
An Introduction to Max Turner	p. xvi
"The Lord, the Giver of Life": The Gift of the Spirit as Both Life-giving and Empowering	p. 1
The Spirit, Simeon, and the Songs of the Servant	p. 18
Whose Spirit? The Promise and the Promiser in Luke 12:12	p. 35
The Persecuted Prophets: A Mirror Image of Luke's Spirit-Inspired Church	p. 52
"Was It Not Necessary for the Messiah to Suffer These Things and Enter into His Glory?" The Significance of Jesus' Death for Luke's Soteriology	p. 71
The Giving of the Spirit in John 19-20: Another Round	p. 86
Is Faith in Christ Without Evidence Superior Faith? A Re-Examination of John 20:29	p. 105
Apollos and the Ephesian Disciples: Befores and Afters (Acts 18:24-19:7)	p. 119
Power From in Between: The Relational Experience of the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts in Paul's Churches	p. 138
Divine Spirit and Human Spirit in Paul in the Light of Stoic and Biblical-Jewish Perspectives	p. 156
Ephesians and Divine-Christology	p. 177
Salvation's Bath by the Spirit: A Study of Titus 3:5b-6 in Its Canonical Setting	p. 198
The Spirit in Hebrews: No Longer Forgotten?	p. 213
New Jerusalem and the Conversion of the Nations: An Exercise in Pneumatic Discernment (Rev. 21:1-22:5)	p. 228
Moses as "God" in Philo of Alexandria: A Precedent for Christology?	p. 246
Jesus and the Spirit in Biblical and Theological Perspective: Messianic Empowering, Saving Wisdom, and the Limits of Biblical Theology	p. 266
Cyril of Alexandria and the Incarnation	p. 285
"By the washing of Regeneration and Renewal in the Holy Spirit": Towards a Pneumatological Theology of Justification	p. 303
Towards a Theology of Togetherness - Life through the Spirit	p. 323
Creative Reason and the Spirit: Identifying, Evaluating, and Developing Paradigms of Pneumatology	p. 336
List of Publications by Max Turner	p. 356
List of Published PhD Dissertations by Max Turner's Research Students	p. 361
Index of Authors	p. 363
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.