Christopher R. J. Holmes

The Holy Spirit - New Studies in Dogmatics Christopher R. J. Holmes

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher Marketing: 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."

Contributor Bio:  Holmes, Christopher R J Christopher R. J. Holmes (ThD, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto) is senior lecturer in Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Christopher is an Anglican priest and is the author of Revisiting the Doctrine of the Divine Attributes: In Dialogue with Karl Barth, Eberhard Jungel, and Wolf Krotke (2007), Ethics in the Presence of Christ (2012), as well as many articles on the theology of Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and on Christian doctrine. Contributor Bio:  Swain, Scott R Scott R. Swain (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is associate professor of systematic theology and academic dean at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is the author of several books, including "Reformed Catholicity "(coauthored with Michael Allen), "The God of the Gospel: Robert Jenson's Trinitarian Theology" and" Trinity, Revelation, and Reading: A Theological Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation". Contributor Bio:  Allen, Michael Michael Allen is assistant professor of Systematic Theology at Knox Theological Seminary in Fort Laudedale, Florida.