Contents

Preface -- ix

Abbreviations -- xii

PART I: The Holy Spirit in Biblical Teaching

1. The Spirit of God in the Old Testament -- pg. 3

2. The Spirit in Judaism -- pg. 22

3. The Holy Spirit in the Synoptic Gospels -- pg. 33

4. The Holy Spirit in Acts -- pg. 49

5. Key Themes in Paul -- pg. 70

6. Further Gifts of the Spirit and More Controversial Themes That Involve Hermeneutics -- pg. 95

7. The Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, in the Johannine Writings -- pg. 131

8. 1 and 2 Peter, Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation -- pg. 148

PART II: The Holy Spirit through the Centuries

9. The Apostolic Fathers and Early Christian Apologists -- pg. 163

10. The Ante-Nicene Fathers -- pg. 173

11. The Post-Nicene Western Fathers -- pg. 193

12. The Post-Nicene Eastern Fathers -- pg. 208

13. The Earlier Medieval Period -- pg. 222

14. The Later Middle Ages: From Bonaventura and Aquinas
to Julian of Norwich and Walter Hilton -- pg. 240

15. The Major Reformers -- pg. 255

16. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: From Owen to Edwards -- pg. 270

PART III: The Holy Spirit in Modern Theology and Today

17. The Nineteenth Century: The Parting of the Ways -- pg. 293

18. The Earlier Part of the Twentieth Century -- pg. 316

19. The Later Twentieth Century to 1985 -- pg. 345

20. Three Pentecostal or Renewal New Testament Scholars:
Fee, Stronstad, and Turner -- pg. 373

21. Five Major Theologians: Congar, Moltmann, Pannenberg,
Lossky, and Zizioulas -- pg. 394

22. Other Writers from the End of the Century: 1986-2000 -- pg. 420

23. The Twenty-First Century -- pg. 443

24. Summary, Conclusions, Mutual Dialogue, and Personal Reflections -- pg. 468

Bibliography -- pg. 501

Index of Modern Authors -- pg. 522

Index of Subjects -- pg. 529

Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources -- pg. 547