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Topic 2: The Reformed Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
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Topic 2: The Reformed Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Primary readings draw on Calvin’s account of how we receive grace (Institutes, Book III), and extended sections from Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics on the Holy Spirit and the Christian community (CD IV/2 and IV/3). Alternate main texts include Thomas Oden’s Life in the Spirit, Jürgen Moltmann’s The Spirit of Life, and Alasdair Heron’s The Holy Spirit.
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Topic 2: The Reformed Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
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2. THE REFORMED DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Main Texts
Calvin, John. “The Way in Which We Receive the Grace of Christ: What Benefits Come to Us from It, and What Effects Follow.” In Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, translated from the 1559 Latin ed. by Ford Lewis Battles, Book III, Chapters 1–25 (vol. 1, p. 535, through vol. 2, p. 1008). Library of Christian Classics, ed. John T. McNeill, vols. 1–2. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960.
Barth, Karl. The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life: The Theological Basis of Ethics. Translated by R. Birch Hoyle, with a foreword by Robin W. Lovin. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1993. xxi + 70 pp.
——— “The Holy Spirit and the Upbuilding of the Christian Community” and “The Holy Spirit and Christian Love.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 2, §§ 67 and 68, pp. 614–726 and 727–840. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1958.
——— “The Holy Spirit and the Sending of the Christian Community” and “The Holy Spirit and Christian Hope.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 3, second half, §§ 72 and 73, pp. 681–901 and 902–942. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1962.
Alternate Main Texts
Oden, Thomas C. Life in the Spirit. San Francisco: Harper, 1992. xi + 548 pp.
Moltmann, Jürgen. The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. xv + 358 pp.
Berkhof, Hendrikus. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Richmond, Virginia: John Knox, 1964. 128 pp.
Heron, Alasdair I. C. The Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit in the Bible, the History of Christian Thought, and Recent Theology. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1983. ix + 212 pp.
McIntyre, John. The Shape of Pneumatology: Studies in the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1997. viii + 296 pp.
Background Reading
LaCugna, Catherine Mowry. “The Practical Trinity,” in The Christian Century, Summer 1992.
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FOUNDATION BIBLIOGRAPHIES Page 9 ——— God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life. San Francisco: Harper, 1991 xiii + 434 pp. Leith, John H. “The Holy Spirit.” In Basic Christian Doctrine, Chapter 10, pp. 160–165. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1993. Richard, Lucien Joseph. The Spirituality of John Calvin. Atlanta: John Knox, 1974. 207 pp. Wallace, Ronald S. Calvin’s Doctrine of the Christian Life. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1959. xvi + 349 pp. Taylor, John V. The Go-Between God: The Holy Spirit and the Christian Mission. London: SCM, 1972. New Edition, SCM, Classics 2002. 246 pp. Bruner, Frederick Dale. A Theology of the Holy Spirit: The Pentecostal Experience and the New Testament Witness. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970. 390 pp.
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Leith, Dr. John H. “Topic 2: The Reformed Doctrine of the Holy Spirit.” 2014. PDF. Bibliographies, Foundation for Reformed Theology. https://foundationrt.org/resource/the-holy-spirit/.
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