The Spirit in the Gospels and Acts

The Spirit in the Gospels and ActsCraig Keener carefully examines the New Testament Gospels and the book of Acts to provide a fuller understanding of what the Holy Spirit meant in the lives of early believers. Christianity did not arise in a vacuum, but rather it appropriated, modified, and utilized the Jewish understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. By understanding the world in which Christianity emerged, we can better understand the earliest believers' experience of God's

showing how a Christian understanding of humans can inform the study of psychology

Hart shows that Christian tradition is sustained not simply by its preservation of the past

the Lord's Prayer has occupied an important place in the lives of Jesus's disciples

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" he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church

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Kristina LaCelle-Peterson seeks both to affirm the central place of Scripture in the Christian life and to highlight the liberating nature of the gospel for both men and women

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Appreciating our created finitude as the condition under which we know (and were made to know) should compel us to appreciate the contingency of our knowledge without sliding into arbitrariness