Flame of love : a theology of the Holy Spirit / Clark H. Pinnock. [print]

By:

Pinnock, Clark H, 1937- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780830818792
9780830815906

Subject(s):

Holy Spirit

LOC classification:

BT121.P656.F536 1996
BT121

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Contents:

Spirit in creation -- Spirit and Christology -- Spirit and church -- Spirit and union -- Spirit and universality -- Spirit and truth.

Subject: In what may be regarded as his magnum opus, Clark Pinnock turns attention to the vital Christian doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Writing out of both wide learning and deep personal passion, he shows the way to restore the oft neglected Spirit to centrality in the life and witness of the church. Pinnock explores the doctrine of the Spirit in relation to other key doctrines such as the Trinity, creation, Christology and the church. Never one to duck the difficult or sensitive.Subject: questions, he also explores issues of the Spirit's universality, gender language for the Spirit and charismatic gifts. Pinnock intends his book to be catholic (in the sense of respecting the beliefs and worship of the historic church) and evangelical (drawing particularly on the heritage of the Reformation). Always in sight is the mission of the church, for "people want to meet the real and living God and will not be satisfied with a religion that only preaches and.Subject: moralizes. Even the unchurched sense that knowing about God is not the same as knowing God....Only by attending to the Spirit can we move beyond sterile rationalist religion in the direction of recovering the sense of intimacy and immediacy for which our generation - and every generation - longs."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	BT121.2.P55 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001398664
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	BT121.2.P55 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001492277

Spirit and Trinity -- Spirit in creation -- Spirit and Christology -- Spirit and church -- Spirit and union -- Spirit and universality -- Spirit and truth.

In what may be regarded as his magnum opus, Clark Pinnock turns attention to the vital Christian doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Writing out of both wide learning and deep personal passion, he shows the way to restore the oft neglected Spirit to centrality in the life and witness of the church. Pinnock explores the doctrine of the Spirit in relation to other key doctrines such as the Trinity, creation, Christology and the church. Never one to duck the difficult or sensitive.

questions, he also explores issues of the Spirit's universality, gender language for the Spirit and charismatic gifts. Pinnock intends his book to be catholic (in the sense of respecting the beliefs and worship of the historic church) and evangelical (drawing particularly on the heritage of the Reformation). Always in sight is the mission of the church, for "people want to meet the real and living God and will not be satisfied with a religion that only preaches and.

moralizes. Even the unchurched sense that knowing about God is not the same as knowing God....Only by attending to the Spirit can we move beyond sterile rationalist religion in the direction of recovering the sense of intimacy and immediacy for which our generation - and every generation - longs."

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