Who is the Holy Spirit and how does the Spirit come to be in relation
to the Father and the Son? What is the mission of the Spirit and where
does it come from?
Chris Holmes takes up the questions surrounding the Spirit's procession
and mission with the help of three of the church's greatest
teachers--Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Karl Barth.
Drawing on their engagements with the Fourth Gospel, Holmes presents an
account of the Spirit's identity, origin, and acts, to show how the acts
of the Spirit derive from the Spirit's life in relation to Father and
Son--and the extent to which the Spirit's mission testifies to the
Spirit's origin.
Holmes presents a way forward for pneumatology. Housed within the
doctrine of the Trinity, pneumatology's joyful task is to describe the
Spirit's acts among us in light of their source in the Spirit's acts in
God. The end of this inquiry is our beatitude--knowledge of the Trinity
that yields to love of the Trinity.
-ABOUT THE SERIES-
New Studies in Dogmatics seeks to retrieve the riches of Christian
doctrine for the sake of contemporary theological renewal. Following in
the tradition of G. C. Berkouwer's Studies in Dogmatics, this series
provides thoughtful, concise, and readable treatments of major
theological topics, expressing the biblical, creedal, and confessional
shape of Christian doctrine for a contemporary evangelical audience.
The editors and contributors share a common conviction that the way
forward in constructive systematic theology lies in building upon the
foundations laid in the church's historic understanding of the Word of
God as professed in its creeds, councils, and confessions, and by its
most trusted teachers.
