Download e-book for iPad: The Lord is the Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Divine by Andrew K. Gabriel

"The Lord is the Spirit" (2 Cor 3:17) . . . and but one should be excused for considering another way while analyzing stories on God's attributes--omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability, impassibility, and so on. even if Christians during the a long time have defended the deity of the Holy Spirit, theologians haven't effectively taken the doctrine of the Holy Spirit into consideration while formulating a theology of the divine attributes. The ensuing understandings of God fall wanting being absolutely Trinitarian.

Gabriel builds on modern Trinitarian theology via advocating for the combination of insights from pneumatology into the doctrine of God's attributes. 3 case reports are provided: impassibility, immutability, and omnipotence. Gabriel writes from an evangelical and Pentecostal vantage aspect as he engages in ecumenical discussion with a large spectrum of historic and modern theological voices.

"Towards the tip of a fruitful existence, Karl Barth sensed the necessity for a extra passable theology of the Holy Spirit. He couldn't write this paintings himself nor even point out its form, yet this paintings by means of Andrew Gabriel comes quite with reference to doing so and issues a fashion ahead. This younger Pentecostal pupil lays out a profound imaginative and prescient of the Trinitarian Spirit, incorporating a few of the clean pondering which turns into attainable whilst complete justice is completed to this subject material. i feel it no longer too rash to determine this quantity as marking a brand new section within the improvement of Pentecostal systematic theology."
--the overdue Clark H. Pinnock, writer of Flame of Love

"Evangelicals in North the US are deep right into a conversation and controversy in regards to the nature and attributes of God, sparked in no small half by means of the openness of God debate. Into this dialog steps a very good younger Pentecostal theologian, becoming a member of a welcome new iteration of students within the culture of Azusa highway. Gabriel engages biblical and theological assets at the attributes of God from a clean point of view, one who is Trinitarian yet with an emphasis at the Holy Spirit. Theologians of all stripes may still consider, and examine from, this significant new learn at the doctrine of God."
--Alan G. Padgett, writer of God, Eternity and the character of Time

"Andrew okay. Gabriel bargains a brand new critique of classical theism's account of the divine attributes from a Pentecostal pneumatological viewpoint. accomplished in scope, Gabriel is as positive in his thought as he's serious of the acquired culture. generally learn, he engages greater than the standard suspects, and through his personal unique contribution has completely enlarged the dialog desk at which Pentecostals now sit."
 
--Ralph Del Colle, writer Christ and the Spirit

“...Gabriel’s contribution is a welcome boost to the growing to be literature in Pentecostal theology.”
-- Daniel Castelo, as reviewed in Pneuma 34

Andrew okay. Gabriel is Assistant Professor of Theology at Horizon collage and Seminary, an affiliated university of the college of Saskatchewan. He has released a couple of articles in journals together with spiritual experiences and Theology and the magazine of Pentecostal Theology.