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The Holy Spirit before Christianity (Hardcover)
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The Holy Spirit before Christianity (Hardcover)
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With his latest book, The Holy Spirit before Christianity, John R.
Levison again changes the face and foundation of Christian belief
in the Holy Spirit. The categories Christians have used, the
boundaries they have created, the proprietary claims they have made
- all of these evaporate, now that Levison has looked afresh at
Scripture. In a study that is both poignant and provocative,
Levison takes readers back five hundred years before Jesus, where
he discovers history's first grasp of the Holy Spirit as a personal
agent. The prophet Haggai and the author of Isaiah 56-66, in their
search for ways to grapple with the tragic events of exile and to
articulate hope for the future, took up old exodus traditions of
divine agents - pillars of fire, an angel, God's own presence - and
fused them with belief in God's Spirit. Since it was the Spirit of
God who led Israel up from Egypt and formed them into a holy
nation, now, the prophets assured their hearers, the Spirit of God
would lead and renew those returning from exile. Taking this point
of origin as our guide, Christian pneumatology - belief in the Holy
Spirit - is less about an exclusively Christian experience or
doctrine and more about the presence of God in the grand scheme of
Israel's history, in which Christianity is ancient Israel's heir.
This explosive observation traces the essence of Christian
pneumatology deep into the heart of the Hebrew Scriptures. The
implications are fierce: the priority of Israelite tradition at the
headwaters of pneumatology means that Christians can no longer hold
stubbornly to the Holy Spirit as an exclusively Christian belief.
But the implications are hopeful as well, offering Christians a
richer history, a renewed vocabulary, a shared path with Judaism,
and the promise of a more expansive and authentic experience of the
Holy Spirit.
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