Life in the Spirit

Year 1992
Type Book
Genre systematic theology
Tradition Evangelical
Original language English

For For serious readers and students wanting classical teaching on the Holy Spirit, salvation and the church; long, and best read after the first two volumes.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher: 4 of 5 important
Difficulty: 3 of 5 demanding

The last volume of his Systematic Theology: the Holy Spirit, salvation, the church and the last things, told through the consensus of the early church writers.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 3 of 5
Scriptural 4 of 5
Experiential 2 of 5
Sociological 3 of 5
Historical 4 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

The third volume of Oden's Systematic Theology, published by HarperSanFrancisco in 1992, after The Living God (1987) and The Word of Life (1989). The set is arranged in a Trinitarian pattern, each volume centred on one person of the Godhead; this one, of some 550 pages, examines, in the publisher's words, the presence of the Holy Spirit in history and the Spirit's work in the lives and communities of believers. Like the other volumes it aims to set out the teaching on which East and West, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox, have generally agreed, built from Scripture and the early church writers. The three volumes were later revised into the one-volume Classic Christianity (2009).

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