Trevor J Burke - Biblical Theology of the Holy Spiri

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Contents

William P. Atkinson (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Director of Research at the London School of Theology, London.

Craig G. Bartholomew (PhD, University of Bristol) is the H. Evan Runner Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University College, as well as the Principal of the Paideia Centre for Public Theology, Ontario, Canada.

Gary M. Burge (PhD, Kings College, Aberdeen University) is Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School, Wheaton, Illinois, USA.

Trevor J. Burke (PhD, University of Glasgow) is Professor of Bible, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Mathew Clark (DTh (Systematic Theology), DTh (NT)) is Director of Postgraduate Studies, Regents Theological College, West Malvern.

Martin Clay (PhD, Bangor University) is Director of Doctoral Studies at Regents Theological College, West Malvern.

Andrew Davies (PhD, University of Sheffield) is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Theology and Pentecostal Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham.

James D. G. Dunn (PhD, DD, Cambridge University), FBA, is Emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, Durham University.

David Firth (PhD, University of Pretoria) is Lecturer in Old Testament and Head of Research at St Johns College, Nottingham.

Alan K. Hodson (BA, BSc, BD (Hons), MA) is an independent scholar completing a PhD on the pneumatology of Hebrews (University of Chester).

Moyer Hubbard (DPhil, University of Oxford) is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, California, USA.

Walter C. Kaiser Jr (PhD, Brandeis University) is Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and President Emeritus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Massachusetts, USA.

Wonsuk Ma (PhD, Fuller Seminary) is Executive Director and David Yonggi Cho Research Tutor of Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford.

Volker Rabens (PhD, London School of Theology, Brunel University) is a postdoctoral researcher and teaches New Testament Studies at Friedrich Schiller University, Germany. He is also a research associate of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

James Robson (PhD, Middlesex University) is Senior Tutor and Tutor in Old Testament and Hebrew at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University.

Verena Schafroth (currently undertaking doctoral research at Columbia International University, South Carolina, USA) works as a theological educator with the Africa Inland Mission.

John Christopher Thomas (PhD, University of Sheffield) is the Clarence J. Abbott Professor of Biblical Studies at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland, Tennessee, USA, and Director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor University.

Max Turner (PhD, Cambridge University) is Emeritus Professor of New Testament Studies at London School of Theology London.

Keith Warrington (PhD, Kings College, London) is Reader in Pentecostal Studies at Regents Theological College, West Malvern.

Matthias Wenk (PhD, London School of Theology, Brunel University) is Pastor of the BewegungPlus, Burgdorf (Switzerland) and Department Head at the InsitutPlus, Baar (Switzerland).

Both in the past and currently the Holy Spirit continues to be a fascinating area of research as evidenced by the steady flow of books, monographs and doctoral theses. As regards the former, one immediately thinks of James Dunns benchmark studies Jesus and the Spirit and Baptism in the Holy Spirit or of Gordon Fees more focused magnum opus Gods Empowering Presence . The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul , for example. All this, together with the recently launched Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research in 2009, augurs well for the future and is a healthy sign that the Holy Spirit remains very fertile territory for biblical and theological inquiry.

To be sure, each of the above volumes has a particular emphasis, a point of entry if you will, an issue which it seeks to address or to which it responds. The latter volume of James Dunn mentioned above, for instance, was a response to the debate over the moment or timing of the baptism of the Spirit. Fees work, while not addressing a precise issue as such is more genre-specific the Pauline corpus in which he provides what amounts to an exhaustive discussion of the Pauline texts where the s/Spirit is mentioned. Levison, on the other hand, paints with a broad brush by not restricting himself to a single author or literary corpus; nevertheless even he is of the view that the rubric Be filled with the Spirit is an overarching way of describing the basic function of the Spirit.

The editors (and contributors) of the current volume seek to build on this rich heritage while also attempting to move the discussion forward. This book, moreover, also has its own point of entry, an attempt to provide a biblical theology

The different authors of the biblical books will no doubt present distinct voices and emphases in what they have to say on this subject. At the same time, and in light of our canonical approach, each contributor will also keep an open ear for the sounds where these individual voices blend together in harmony as the theme of the Spirit is traced through Scripture. Presumably, there will be commonalities between the various biblical authors in what they have to say concerning the Spirit to enable a synthesis to be provided. With the latter especially in view, and as a means of providing cohesion to the volume, contributors will be especially alert to the broader themes which may arise in any discussion of this subject, including, for example, soteriology, empowerment, and creating/life-giving aspects, to name but a few.