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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162718903321

Autore

Castelo Daniel <1978->

Titolo

Pneumatology : a guide for the perplexed / / Daniel Castelo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : T&T Clark-Bloomsbury, , 2015

ISBN

0-567-65970-4

0-567-46165-3

0-567-66201-2

0-567-65899-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Bloomsbury Guides for the Perplexed

Disciplina

231/.3

Soggetti

Holy Spirit

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 Facing the wind; Challenges of pneumatology; Recalibrating expectations; A field of exceptional promise; Looking ahead; 2 The shape of Spirit-talk; Old Testament; Second Temple Judaism; The New Testament; The particular and underdetermined nature of biblical Spirit-talk; 3 The testimony of the Spirit; Pneumatology prior to Nicaea; The fourth century; Augustine and the filioque controversy; Conclusion; 4 Spirit and life; The Spirit and science; The need for a pneumatological cosmology

5 In the SpiritA pneumatologically constituted canonical heritage; Dimensions of holiness; The authority of Scripture; An expansive pneumatology of Scripture; 6 Receiving the Spirit; Alternatives; Orienting proposals; Conclusion; 7 Guided by the Spirit; Discernment and method; A methodological test case; Discernment?; Bibliography; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 possibi