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Anderson, Robert Mapes. Vision of the Disinherited: The Making of American Pentecostalism. New York: Oxford, 1979; reprint ed., Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1992. This socio-historical study utilizes the so-called "deprivationv" theory to study the origins and development of the Pentecostal movement. The insights and some controversial conclusions make it an important and interesting book to read.
Augsburger, Myron S. Practicing the Presence of the Spirit. Scottdale: Herald, 1978. This work was written for congregations and seeks to inspire living by the Spirit. Augsburger explores the Holy Spirit's role as a glorifying agent of Christ by emphasizing such ideas as praise and practice, experience and ethics, joy and justice, and renewal and righteousness.
Barrett, C. K. The Holy Spirit and the Gospel Tradition. London: SPCK, 1958. This work focuses on the fact that the first generation Christians believed that they were under the immediate government of the spiritual God. Barrett pursues this theme both christologically and ecclesiologically.
Barth, Karl. The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life: The Theological Basis of Ethics. Translated by R. Birch Hoyle. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1993. This brief volume was a lecture delivered in Germany in 1929. It is trinitarian in character and examines the Holy Spirit in three distinct ways: the Holy Spirit as Creator; the Holy Spirit as Reconciler; and the Holy Spirit as Redeemer.
Berkhoff, Hendrikus. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Richmond: John Knox, 1964. At the heart of Berkhoff's work is the understanding that renewal in the church is the work of the Holy Spirit. This is an attempt to discern the Spirit's nature, promises, actions, and gifts in hope of better understanding the nature of renewal. This is a concise treatment of the doctrine from the perspective of an influential, contemporary Dutch Calvinist.
Blumhofer, Edith L. Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Blumhofer analyzes the Pentecostal movement through the lens of the largest predominantly white Pentecostal denomination. Her historical framework is that the main motivating force for Pentecostals was to restore the NT church.
Bruner, Frederick Dale. A Theology of the Holy Spirit: The Pentecostal Experience and the NT Witness. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970. This is a treatise that has become the "classic" treatment of the Pentecostal understanding of the Spirit's person and work. It is probably still the best analysis of the Pentecostal understanding of the person and work of the Holy Spirit from a Reformed perspective. The book is fair, but hard-hitting.
Bruner, Fredrick Dale and Hordern, William. The Holy Spirit: Shy Member of the Trinity. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1984. This work is in response to the modern debate over the reception of the Holy Spirit, the marks of the Spirit, and the evidence of the Spirit in believers' lives. It seeks to clarify the debate by offering a biblical understanding of the modern situation.
Burge, Gary M. The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987. Burge gives a detailed study of the Spirit in the Johannine Gospel and Letters. His motivation is to find the place of the Holy Spirit in normative Christian experience from the model provided by the NT.
Burgess, Stanley M. The Holy Spirit. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1989. This volume is devoted solely to the history of the understanding of the Spirit in Eastern Christian traditions. Emphasis is primarily on late antiquity and the medieval period.
Burgess, Stanley M. The Spirit and the Church: Antiquity. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1984. This study traces the development of the theology of the Spirit and the understanding of the life of the Spirit in the ancient church. Attention is given to the tension between order and prophecy.
Burgess, Stanley M. and McGee, Gary B., eds. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988. This volume is a superb collection of articles on persons, doctrines, controversies, and issues related to the worldwide Pentecostal movement. It is an excellent reference tool with helpful bibliographies.
Carson, D. A. Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12-14. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1987. Carson presents a clear explanation of these key chapters dealing with the nature and function of spiritual gifts. He presents the various approaches to spiritual gifts found in the Church today and evaluates them in view of the biblical data. His own conclusions fall short of Pentecostalism, but with an openness to the reality and practice of the gifts today.
Carson, D. A. How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1990. Any study of Paul's view of the Spirit must deal eventually with the closely related issue of the role of suffering in the life of the believer. Carson's work offers one of the best treatments of the theme of suffering in the NT, while at the same time dealing with its application to the contemporary experience.
Carter, Charles Webb. The Person and Ministry of the Holy Spirit: A Wesleyan Perspective. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1974. Carter traces the Holy Spirit's participation in creation, the history of redemption, and the call to salvation in Christ.
Castro, Emilio, ed. To the Wind of God's Spirit: Reflections on the Canberra Theme. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1990. This brief study volume prepared for the WCC's Seventh Assembly has several provocative essays by Moltmann, Schweizer, Samartha and others. The ten articles and two poems found here are primarily theological and sum up the hopes for the ecumenical movement as it waits upon the Spirit.
Coggins, James R. and Hiebert, Paul G., eds. Wonders and the Word: An Examination of Issues Raised by John Wimber and the Vineyard Movement. Winnipeg: Kindred, 1989. Probably the best historical and theological analysis to date of the "third wave" movement. The essays are of uneven quality, but some are very insightful and helpful in trying to understand this latest "Pentecostal" manifestation.
Come, Arnold. Human Spirit and Holy Spirit. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1959. Perhaps the most thorough treatment available on the relation of Spirit to spirit. Come holds that humanity's knowledge of God must not be developed in isolation from its own self-knowledge. Throughout this work Kierkegaard is prominent as a resource.
Congar, Yves M. J. I Believe in the Holy Spirit. Vol. 1. Translated by David Smith. New York: Seabury, 1983. The focus here is to understand Christian experience in light of the current renewal or charismatic movement. Congar states that unlike the other two members of the Trinity, the Spirit has no clear conceptual picture from which we can frame him. Congar explores this topic through the scriptures, history, and the life of the Church.
Cox, Harvey. Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1995. Cox approaches the study of world Pentecostalism from the religious studies perspective and emphasizing three themes: primal speech, primal piety, and primal hope. Much of the book is based on Cox's own experiences, and he includes some fascinating anecdotal material.
Dayton, Donald W. ed. The Higher Christian Life: Sources for the Study of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Keswick Movements. New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. This is an exploration into the broader evangelical traditions in America, particularly those rooted in nineteenth century revivalism and their intimate relation with holiness themes. It further examines the extent to which pre-Pentecostal and near Pentecostal doctrines influenced the international evangelical missionary culture at the turn of the century.
Dayton, Donald W. Theological Roots of Pentecostalism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987. A landmark study explaining how Pentecostalism grew out of Methodism in the 19th-century Holiness revival. One of the earliest and best introductions to the theological foundations of Pentecostalism.
Dempster, Murray A., Byron D. Klaus, Douglas Petersen, eds. Called and Empowered: Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991. This creative Pentecostal theology has been called the fullest and finest missiological treatise originating within classical Pentecostalism to date.
Dewar, Lindsay. The Holy Spirit and Modern Thought. New York: Harper, 1959. This is a useful summary of the teachings about the Spirit in the Bible and in Church history, to which is added a psychological interpretation of the Spirit's workings.
Dillistone, F. W. The Holy Spirit in the Life of Today. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957. This work is aimed at the average reader who seeks to understand the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Its thesis revolves around the notion that Pentecost presupposes Calvary both historically and experientially. It lays a solid biblical foundation concerning life, power, order, and glory.
Dunn, James D. G. Baptism in the Holy Spirit. London: SCM, 1970. This NT study is an assessment of the Pentecostal teaching of the Baptism in the Spirit. It is often considered one of the most comprehensive and influential rebuttals of Pentecostalism today.
Dunn, James D. G. Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of the Religious and Charismatic Experience of Jesus and the First Christians as Reflected in the New Testament. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975. Based on the assumption that religious experience is the core of religion, Dunn attempts to define true religious experience and how God is active in our lives. Jesus and the first century church provide the material from which to understand these realities.
Ervin, Howard M. Conversion, Initiation in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit: An Engaging Critique of James D. G. Dunn's Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1984. This is a Pentecostal rebuttal to Dunn's work. Ervin defends the two clearly distinguishable actions of the Holy Spirit's baptism and the evidence of tongues in the Spirit-baptism experience.
Ervin, Howard M. Spirit Baptism: A Biblical Investigation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987. This work was born out of the Fundamentalist/Evangelical polemic and is aimed at the Pentecostal movement. It is an evangelical work focusing on Pentecost and the use of the charismata.
Ervin, Howard M. These Are Not Drunken As Ye Suppose. Plainfield, NJ: Logos, 1968. Ervin's work, although not definitive, attempts to find a biblical basis for the present charismatic renewal within the Church. He offers a series of letters to an imaginary inquirer in order to give a pastoral Pentecostal apologetic.
Ewert, David. The Holy Spirit in the New Testament. Scottdale: Herald, 1983. Ewert seeks to clarify the role and mark of the Holy Spirit in both the Christian's personal life and in the Church. This broad comprehensive work discusses all the NT texts which mention the Holy Spirit. He supports his theological exposition with extensive exegetical commentary.
Faupel, D. William. The Everlasting Gospel: The Significance of Eschatology in the Development of Pentecostal Thought. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. This work discusses how the belief in Christ's imminent return has been and remains the motivating force for the Pentecostal movement. The best historical treatment to date.
Fee, Gordon D. God's Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. The vacuum created by the lack of sustained and serious exegetical studies of Paul's understanding of the Spirit has now been filled by this encyclopedic treatment of every significant Pauline passage concerning the Spirit. Fee is a master interpreter of the text, and he is willing to examine his own Pentecostal convictions in light of his findings. There is no better reference book on the subject available.
Fee, Gordon D. Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996. This book makes the significance of the larger volume, God's Empowering Presence, available to a wider audience. Several chapter focus on the person of the Spirit, several more address conversion, and the remaining chapters deal with various topics relating to life in the Spirit, including worship and gifts.
Fitch, William. The Ministry of the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974. Fitch describes the person and work of the Holy Spirit in the many ways in which the Spirit reveals himself and works in and through the Church and every believer. This work is an attempt to aid those seeking to understand the role of the Spirit in every day life.
Fortman, Edmund J. Activities of the Holy Spirit. Chicago: Franciscan Herald, 1984. Fortman profiles such roles as the christifying Spirit, the indwelling Spirit, the divinizing Spirit, the Spirit of life, and the Spirit of love. The work first looks to the scriptures for explanation and then seeks further clarification in history.
Fuller, Daniel P. The Unity of the Bible: Unfolding God's Plan for Humanity. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992. Fuller's work is seminal in showing the nature of biblical faith and how it relates to God's work throughout redemptive history. Though the work is serious in its scholarship, it is written with the Church in view and is easily accessible to scholar and lay person alike. The framework developed for understanding the relation between the promises of God and the call to obedience is essential for coming to grips with Paul's insistence that the Spirit is the power of new life for the believer.
Gaffin, Jr., Richard B. Perspectives on Pentecost, New Testament Teaching on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1979. For a careful and clear presentation of the view that the "gifts of the Spirit" (though not miracles!) ceased with the end of the apostolic period there is no better representative than the work of Gaffin.
Gause, R. Hollis. Living in the Spirit: The Way of Salvation. Cleveland, TN: Pathway, 1980. A creative and tightly reasoned Pentecostal soteriology which takes seriously the ethical implications of spiritual fullness.
Goff, James R. Fields White Unto Harvest: Charles F. Parham and the Missionary Origins of Pentecostalism. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. Maintaining that Parham was indeed the "father" of the modern Pentecostal movement, Goff argues that Parham's focus on speaking in tongues was so that the gospel could be spread to all nations as people received the gift of foreign languages.
Gosling, F. A. "An unresolved problem of Old Testament Theology," ExpT 106 (1995), 234-237. Gosling approaches the OT on its own terms to discern the intent of the writers. The idea that the Spirit brought revelation is viewed as an exilic/post-exilic development.
Green, Michael. I Believe in the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975. This discussion of the Holy Spirit by a popular British evangelical Anglican offers a mildly charismatic perspective. Green gives an comprehensive biblical interpretation of the controversial areas surrounding the Holy Spirit.
Greig, Gary S. and Springer, Kevin N. eds. The Kingdom and the Power. Ventura, CA: Regal, 1993. This series of essays focusing on the signs and wonders movement was written by sympathetic "outsiders," all of whom stand in the evangelical tradition.
Grenz, Stanley J. Created for Community: Connecting Christian Belief with Christian Living. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996. This overview of systematic theology contains a section on pneumatology which views the Spirit within the context of the social Trinity.
Grenz, Stanley J. Theology for the Community of God. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1994. This lengthier work on systematic theology contains a discussion of the Holy Spirit and of salvation under the rubric of "community."
Gunkel, Hermann. The Influence of the Holy Spirit. Translated by Roy A. Harrisville and Philip A. Quanbeck II. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979. This work tries to grasp the symptoms by which charismata were recognized. It does not attempt to describe the phenomena, but to discern what was common to all of them.
Hafemann, Scott J. Suffering and Ministry in the Spirit. Paul's Defense of His Ministry in II Corinthians 2:14-3:3. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990. A detailed study of 2 Cor 2:14-3:3 as the key text for understanding the way in which the Spirit and suffering functioned together in Paul's life to support the legitimacy of his apostleship and to spread the message of his gospel. This study demonstrates that, rather than being in conflict with one another, Paul's life of suffering was the vehicle through which the power of the Spirit was manifest in his life and through his life to others.
Hamilton, Michael P. ed. The Charismatic Movement. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975. Hamilton has collected ten essays reflecting the diverse reactions to the charismatic movement. The compilation attempts to evaluate and clarify this movement for non-charismatics as well as charismatics.
Harrell, David Edwin, Jr. All Things are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975. Harrell writes in lively style about the motley cast of characters in the healing and charismatic revivals in the 1940s through the 1970s. Collected here are the noteworthy, the obscure, the bizarre, and the admirable, and a few who are all of the above.
Harvey, A. E. Renewal through Suffering. A Study of 2 Corinthians. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996. This recent study surveys the central passages of 2 Corinthians dealing with suffering, the most personal and explicit texts in Paul's writings on the role of suffering within his own life and in the life of the believer.
Hendry, George S. The Holy Spirit in Christian Theology. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1956. This is not a systematic doctrine of the Holy Spirit, but is a topical treatment from a mainline Presbyterian perspective. It attempts to understand certain doctrinal problems whose controversies revolve around the implied doctrine of the Spirit. Such issues include the Holy Spirit and Christ, God, Church, Word, and Human Spirit.
Heron, Alasdair I. C. The Holy Spirit. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1983. This is a treatment of the Holy Spirit from a leading European scholar, which moves from scripture through theological history to the questions arising in the contemporary situation.
Hildebrandt, Wilf. An Old Testament Theology of the Spirit of God. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995. Hildebrandt seeks to find the source of NT pneumatology by evaluating the relevant OT passages without spiritualizing or allegorizing. He provides a good overview of the relevant texts and concludes with a chapter giving "pneumatological reflections."
Hocken, Peter. The Glory and the Shame: Reflections on the 20th-Century Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Guildford: Eagle, 1994. This small work traces the integrity of the Pentecostal and charismatic movements throughout this century. This is a theological work written by a convinced Roman Catholic which seeks to penetrate the significance of the Holy Spirit's contemporary work and challenge churches to be renewed by the Holy Spirit in a fuller ecumenical framework.
Hummel, Charles G. Fire in the Fireplace: Contemporary Charismatic Renewal. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1978. Hummel organizes his work in four parts. Part one looks at the charismatic renewal in the university, community, and Pentecostalism. Part two is an analysis of the role of the Spirit in Luke/Acts. Part three analyzes the teaching on the Spirit in Paul's letters. Part four discusses various contemporary issues such as baptism, prophecy, tongues, healing, gifts, and renewal.
Inch, Morris. The Saga of the Spirit. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1985. This exploration of the Holy Spirit by an evangelical theologian focuses on biblical, systematic, and historical theology.
Johns, Cheryl Bridges. Pentecostal Formation: A Pedagogy Among the Oppressed. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. Johns presents an exploration of the nature of catechesis, in particular the process of faith formation within Pentecostalism, including her critique of the educational paradigm of Paulo Freire as a means of empowering the oppressed.
Journal of Pentecostal Theology. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. Vols. 1-9, 1992-1996. This journal is creative, constructive, Pentecostal theologizing at its best. Each issue includes an engaging dialogue with a friendly critic.
Judisch, Douglas. An Evaluation of Claims to the Charismatic Gifts. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1978. This is a scriptural evaluation of the charismatic gifts which argues that all of the gifts of the Holy Spirit were intimately connected with prophecy, but that prophetic gifts are no longer operative in the post-apostolic era.
Koenig, John. Charismatica: God's Gifts for God's People. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978. Koenig sees the Spirit of God as a free moving force in the early church. He provides a NT investigation of the charismatic movement and its place in today's church.
Kvuung, Hans and Moltmann, Jvuurgen, eds. Conflicts about the Holy Spirit. New York: Seabury, 1979. This compilation of essays by authors from various denominations provides an arena for the expression of each church's concern. It is divided into four parts: Son and Spirit (the question of orthodoxy), Word and Spirit (the question of the Reformation), Office and Spirit (the question of Rome) and Spirit and spirits (the question of the charismatic movements).
Kuyper, Abraham. The Work of the Holy Spirit. Translated by Henry DeVries. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1900. This is a comprehensive, three volume treatise on the work of the Holy Spirit. Kuyper discusses various opinions and seeks to describe how the Holy Spirit works in order to evaluate the options.
Ladd, George Eldon. The Gospel of the Kingdom: Popular Expositions of the Kingdom of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959. Ladd's work remains the most concise and accessible presentation of "inaugurated eschatology, " i..e., the NT conviction that with the coming of Jesus the kingdom of God has been established within history, albeit not yet in all its fullness. This concept provides the basic framework for understanding Paul's thought concerning the significance and work of the Spirit within and among God's people today. Ladd's work in this regard has been the most influential factor in the development of evangelical theology in our generation.
Lampe, G. W. H. The Seal of the Spirit: A Study in the Doctrine of Baptism and Confirmation in the New Testament and the Fathers. London: SPCK, 1967. This is an in depth investigation of the relation of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Christian initiation. This work struggles with two aspects of baptism: the salvation of Christ sacramentally represented and effected in baptism; and the baptism in water as a preparatory rite signifying repentance and regeneration.
Land, Steven J. Pentecostal Spirituality: A Passion for the Kingdom. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. A sweeping theological construction which analyzes the narrative beliefs and practices of Pentecostalism and charts fundamentally new theological and ecumenical directions.
Lodahl, Michael E. Shekinah/Spirit: Divine Presence in Jewish and Christian Religion. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1992. This is a process theology, which seeks to understand the doctrine of the Holy Spirit as a way of talking about the nearness or relatedness of God in both aspects of the Jewish-Christian conversation.
Loder, James and Neidhardt, W. Jim. The Knights Move: The Relational Logic of the Spirit in Theology and Science. Colorado Springs: Helmers & Howard, 1992. Loder and Neidhardt present a creative, constructive theology of the spirit and Spirit that is indebted to Kierkegaard. Co-written by a theologian and a physicist, the book proposes as a relational model the strange loop of the Mobius strip.
Macchia, Frank. "Sighs Too Deep for Words," Journal of Pentecostal Theology, 1 (1992), 47-73. A seminal article which will serve as the basis for a whole new theology of glossalalia.
Marva J. Dawn. Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
McDonnell, Kilian and Montague, George T. Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Evidence from the first Eight Centuries. Collegeville: Liturgical, 1991. Based on the evidence of eleven post-biblical texts, this work seeks to discover each early Christian author's understanding of Baptism in the Holy Spirit. The evidence points to the use of charisms in the welcoming of new Christians into the community of believers.
McQueen, L. R. Joel and the Spirit. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995. McQueen describes lament, salvation, judgment, and the Spirit in Joel from a Pentecostal perspective.
Menzies, Robert P. Empowered for Witness: The Spirit in Luke-Acts. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994. By challenging old assumptions Menzies demonstrates that Pentecostals have read Luke more accurately than is often assumed.
Mills, Watson E. A Theological/Exegetical Approach to Glossolalia. Lanham: University Press of America, 1985. This book seeks to understand what the scriptures say about the phenomenon of speaking in tongues. The evidence presented is evaluated from the standpoint of biblical theology.
Moltmann, Jurgen. The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. This is perhaps the most creative and intriguing work of one of the major theologians of our day. It is a holistic pneumatology for the deepening of the Christian life. It is drawn partly from a "philosophy of life" and seeks to understand the experiences of the Spirit and the life in the Spirit.
Moltmann, Jurgen and Kuschel, Karl-Josef. Pentecostal Movements as an Ecumenical Challenge. Concilium 3 Maryknoll, NY: 1996. Pentecostals state basic positions and are responded to by Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and mainline members of the ecumenical movement.
Montague, George T. The Holy Spirit: Growth of a Biblical Tradition. New York: Paulist, 1970. This is a comprehensive biblical study by a leading Roman Catholic scholar. The volume is still very useful despite more recent studies. It attempts to trace the role of the Spirit in the midst of Christian tradition, scholarship, and spirituality.
Moody, Dale. Spirit of the Living God. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968. This is a theology of the Holy Spirit by a Southern Baptist theologian who works closely with the biblical text.
Moule, C. F. D. The Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978. This is an attempt by a NT scholar to provide a Christian understanding of the Holy Spirit in the light of modern questions about the Spirit's place in the Trinity and the Spirit's role in the Church.
Nave, Lloyd. The Spirit of God in the Old Testament. Tokyo: Seibunsha, 1972. This hard-to-locate, brief volume, written by a missionary in Japan, is the single best volume on the topic. If you find this book in a used bookstore, buy it.
Oden, Thomas C. Life in the Spirit. Vol. 3: Systematic Theology. San Francisco: Harper, 1992. The first two chapters of this volume deal with the person and work of the Holy Spirit and set forth the cohesive central tradition derived from the Church's history. The chapters that follow show the relevance of the Spirit for salvation, the Church, and human destiny.
Opsahl, Paul D. The Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1978. This Lutheran work reexamines the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit's manifestation in the world today. It seeks to discern the doctrinal relevance of the Spirit and its place in contemporary theology.
Otto, Rudolf. The Idea of the Holy. New York: Oxford, 1958. The classic, phenomenological study of how people explain their encounter with the sacred. This is must reading for anyone seeking to understand the Spirit's involvement in human lives.
Pache, Renvea. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit. Chicago: Moody, 1954. Pache has provided a detailed work on the person of the Spirit. He describes the person of the Spirit, the Spirit's work in the heart of humanity since Pentecost, his role in service, and his place in the future of the Church.
Packer, James I. "The Holy Spirit and his Work," Applying the Scriptures. Edited by Kenneth Kantzer. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987, 51-76. A lucid delineation of an evangelical theology of the Holy Spirit. This is about as good as it gets in setting forth in brief compass the traditional evangelical understanding.
Palmer, Edwin H. The Person and Ministry of the Holy Spirit: the Traditional Calvinistic Perspective. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974. Based on Calvin's rediscovering of the biblical doctrine of sovereign grace, this work seeks to understand the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the elect. It explores the range of doctrines related to the work of the Spirit.
Pinnock, Clark H. Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1996. This is a systematic theology of the Spirit by an evangelical scholar which examines the Christian vision from the Spirit's point of view. It treats central theological themes and doctrines at the heart of Christianity. This is more than a biblical-exegetical study, for it also accounts for historical, theological, philosophical, cultural, and mystical dimensions.
Pomerville, Paul A. The Third Force in Missions: A Pentecostal Contribution to Contemporary Mission Theology. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1985. Pommerville, an Assemblies of God missiologist, seeks to discern the theological implications underlying the unusual contribution of Pentecostal mission to the modern church. This is an exegetical theology which hopes to identify the significant contribution of Pentecostalism in contemporary mission.
Prenter, Regin. Spiritus Creator. Translated by John M. Jenson. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg, 1953. This work looks at the Holy Spirit in Luther's theology. Prenter holds that in virtually every doctrine Luther's concept of the Holy Spirit lies at its center. Thus he lays out a systematic presentation of Luther's views about the Spirit.
Ramm, Bernard L. Rapping about the Spirit. Waco, TX: Word, 1974. This is a "chatty" treatment of the person and work of the Spirit understood in the context of the modern world by a leading evangelical theologian.
Ramsey, Michael. Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977. This small work examines the experience which the Christians of the first century attributed to the Holy Spirit.
Robinson, Wheeler H. The Christian Experience of the Holy Spirit. London: Nisbet, 1930. This work begins with a general summary of the Christian experience of the Spirit. Then it looks at the relation of the Spirit to the Church and the sacraments. Finally it seeks to understand the metaphysical relationship of the Spirit and the Godhead.
Rosato, Philip J. The Spirit as Lord: The Pneumatology of Karl Barth. Edinburgh: T.& T. Clark, 1981. This is a detailed study which seeks to find the Spirit-centered theologian in Karl Barth. Rosato searches Barth's background, methodology, and ultimately his convictions concerning the Spirit.
Ruthven, John. On the Cessation of the Charismata: The Protestant Polemic on Post Biblical Miracles. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. A definitive study and critique of the Protestant argument for the cessation of miracles.
Schweizer, Eduard. The Holy Spirit. Translated by H. Reginald and Ilse Fuller. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980. Schweizer looks first at the perception of the Holy Spirit from the western world's perspective. Then he investigates the Spirit's nature in both testaments and in intertestamental Judaism.
Scott, Ernest F. The Spirit in the New Testament. New York: George H. Dovan, 1923. This is a critical, historical examination of the doctrine of the Spirit as found in the NT. It focuses on the role of the Spirit in Christian experience.
Shelton, G. Larry and Deasley, Alex R., eds. The Spirit and the New Age. Anderson: Warner, 1972. This work comes from the Wesleyan tradition, which has traditionally emphasized the work of the Holy Spirit primarily in relation to salvation. It begins its development with a holistic, biblical, and historical perspective and ends with the practical implications for the church today.
Smeaton, George. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. London: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1961. Smeaton's work is divided into three parts: a biblical survey of both testaments to show the constant exhibition of the Holy Spirit; a brief outline of the Church's dogmatic view of the Spirit; and a condensed history of the Spirit from the Apostolic Age to the present.
Stibbs, A. M. and Packer, J. I. The Spirit Within You: The Church's Neglected Possession. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967. This small work seeks to relate the biblical teaching on the Spirit to the contemporary situation. It is an attempt to clarify certain issues, particularly those raised by the Pentecostal movement.
Streeter, B. H., ed. The Spirit: The Relation of God and Man, Considered from the Standpoint of Recent Philosophy and Science. New York: McMillan, 1919. Streeter struggles with classical theology's scholastic abstraction and evangelicalism's focus on religious experience. This work proposes a reexamination of the Spirit as God in action in the light of the religious experience and theological reflection of the Christian Church throughout the ages.
Swete, Henry Barclay. The Holy Spirit in the New Testament: A Study of Primitive Christian Teaching. London: McMillan, 1909. This is an attempt to discern how the first Christian readers and writers understood the Holy Spirit. It is not a literary or an historical criticism of the texts. Rather, it is an attempt to listen to the NT as a whole.
Swete, Henry Barclay. The Holy Spirit: A Study of Christian Teaching in the Age of the Fathers. London: McMillan, 1912. This volume analyzes the history of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit to the end of the Patristic period. The assumption which lies behind this work is that the Christianity of today did not evolve directly from the NT, but is a product of gradual assimilation. Swete also proposes that any reconstruction or development of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit be made in the light of the full history which lay behind it.
Synan, Vinson, ed. Aspects of Pentecostal-Charismatic Origins. Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1975. Synan has compiled an early collection of essays which explore aspects of Pentecostal-charismatic origins not dealt with anywhere else.
Synon, Vinson. The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971. An in-depth study of the beginnings of the Holiness-Pentecostal movement. This book examines the literature as well as the social relations and attitudes of various groups.
Taylor, John V. The Go-Between God. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972. If you own only one volume on a theology of the Holy Spirit, this should be it. Written by a missiologist, it is engaging without any compromise in its scholarship.
Thompson, John. The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Karl Barth. Allison Park: Pickwick Publications, 1991. The author explains Barth's views concerning the Holy Spirit in a way that is accesible to both the student and the general reader. The majority of this work is drawn from lectures given as a general introduction to Karl Barth.
Turner, Max. Power from on High: The Spirit in Israel's Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. Turner sheds fresh light on specific Lukan concepts, in a coherent understanding of the general shape of Luke's pneumatology.
Underwood, B. E. Spiritual Gifts: Ministries and Manifestations. Franklin Springs, GA: Advocate, 1984. A classical Pentecostal treatment of the meaning and ministry of spiritual gifts.
VanDusen, Henry P. Spirit Son and Father: Christian Faith in the Light of the Holy Spirit. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. VanDusen surveys the presence and development of recognition of the Holy Spirit in the Hebrew and Christian traditions. He shows how Christians are to think about God and humanity and about Christ and the Church.
Wacker, Grant. "The Functions of Faith in Primitive Pentecostalism," HTR 77 (1984) 353-75. Wacker is a historian who grew up as a Pentecostal. His insights into the internal workings of people in the movement are unparalleled.
Watkin-Jones, Howard. The Holy Spirit from Armenius to Wesley: A Study of Christian Teaching Concerning the Holy Spirit and his Place in the Trinity in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. London: Epworth, 1922. This work along with its companion volume (see the next entry) provides a historical foundation for a modern understanding of the person and work of the Holy Spirit and his place in the Trinity.
Watkin-Jones, Howard. The Holy Spirit in the Mediaeval Church: A Study of Christian Teaching Concerning the Holy Spirit and his Place in the Trinity from the Post-Patristic Age to the Counter Reformation. London: Epworth, 1922. See the previous entry.
Weakley, Clare. John Wesley: The Holy Spirit and Power. Plainfield: Logos International, 1977. This book is a modern paraphrase of ten of John Wesley's "Standard Sermons" concerning the Holy Spirit and his work.
Williams, J. Rodman. The Era of the Spirit. Plainfield: Logos International, 1971. This is a theological reflection on the extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit in the Church today. It seeks to discern the significance of the movement by exploring the writings of Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Paul Tillich, and Rudolf Bultmann.
Williams, J. Rodman. The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today. Plainfield: Logos International, 1980. Williams uses the experience called "the gift of the Holy Spirit" as the starting point for his investigation. He compares the gift of the Holy Spirit in its earliest Christian form and in contemporary Christian experience.
Williams, John. The Holy Spirit Lord and Life-Giver. Neptune: Loizeaux Brothers, 1980. This is a thoroughly biblical approach to the person and work of the Holy Spirit. Williams gives practical and ethical implications while relating the significance of the biblical teaching to the contemporary interest in the gifts of the Spirit.
Wilson, Mark W., ed. Spirit and Renewal: Essays in Honor of J. Rodman Williams. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994. This volume contains thirteen scholarly essays focusing on the dual themes of pneumatology and Church renewal.
Woodhouse, H. F. "The Holy Ghost was not yet Given," Theology 67 (1964) 310-312. An illuminating brief treatment of John 7:39.
Yates, J. E. The Spirit and the Kingdom. London: SPCK, 1963. Yates is concerned with the various positions, nuances, and emphases given to the Spirit in the Gospels and Acts. Much of this book is focused on the actual content and arrangement of Mark, in particular the phrase, "gospel of God" and the early tradition of the sayings of Jesus.
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