The Holy Spirit, inspiration, and the cultures of antiquity : multidisciplinary perspectives

The Holy Spirit, inspiration, and the cultures of antiquity : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Jörg Frey and John R. Levison ; in collaboration with Andrew Bowden.

Early Christian claims to the Holy Spirit arose in a vibrant cultural matrix that included Stoicism, Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman medicine, and the perspectives of Plutarch. In a range of articles, this multidisciplinary volume discovers in these texts rich cultural connection...

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Other Authors: Frey, Jörg (Editor), Levison, John R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Series:Ekstasis (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Holy Spirit > History of doctrines.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Holy Spirit > History of doctrines
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Table of Contents:
  • The origins of early Christian pneumatology: on the rediscovery and reshaping of the history of religions quest
  • The spirit of stoicism
  • Plutarch and Pentecost: an exploration in interdisciplinary collaboration
  • "Even before his birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit"
  • Luke 1:15 in the spectrum of theological and medical discourses of early Christianity
  • The infusion of the Spirit: the meaning of eufusaō in John 20:22-23
  • Ruaḥ and the beholding of God
  • from Ezekiel's vision of the divine chariot to Merkaba mysticism
  • Historical origins of the early Christian concept of the Holy Spirit
  • Speech and spirit: Paul and the Maskil as inspired interpreters of Scripture
  • Philo of Alexandria's understanding of pneuma in Deus 33-50
  • Pneuma and the beholding of God: reading Paul in the context of Philonic mystical traditions
  • Spirit in relationship
  • pneumatology in the Gospel of John
  • How did the Spirit become a person?

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