The Holy Spirit (New Studies in Dogmatics), by Christopher R. J. Holmes
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Who is the Holy Spirit and how does the Spirit come to be in relation to the Father and the Son? What is the mission of the Spirit and where does it come from? Chris Holmes takes up the questions surrounding the Spirit’s procession and mission with the help of three of the church’s greatest teachers—Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Karl Barth.
Drawing on their engagements with the Fourth Gospel, Holmes presents an account of the Spirit’s identity, origin, and acts, to show how the acts of the Spirit derive from the Spirit’s life in relation to Father and Son—and the extent to which the Spirit’s mission testifies to the Spirit’s origin.
Holmes presents a way forward for pneumatology. Housed within the doctrine of the Trinity, pneumatology’s joyful task is to describe the Spirit’s acts among us in light of their source in the Spirit’s acts in God. The end of this inquiry is our beatitude—knowledge of the Trinity that yields to love of the Trinity.
The Holy Spirit (New Studies in Dogmatics), by Christopher R. J. Holmes- Amazon Sales Rank: #359897 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Released on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
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- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Review 'With its scriptural alertness, its generous appropriation of elements of classical Christian thought, and its dogmatic intelligence and scope, this is a rewarding study of the lordly and life-giving Spirit.' (John Webster, St. Mary's College, University of St. Andrews)'This is a worthy contribution that enriches our understanding of the Holy Spirit’s person and work by upholding the centrality of Christ.' (George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary)'Here is adventuresome dogmatic theology at its best. Holmes’s vibrantly Christological, exuberantly Trinitarian engagement with the Holy Spirit is demanding, invigorating theological engagement.' (Will Willimon, Duke Divinity School)'Guided by such luminaries as John Webster and Kevin Vanhoozer, Reformed dogmatic theology has been powerfully revitalized in recent years. Professor Holmes’s exploration of the glorious mystery of the Holy Spirit is a fruit of this renewal and a most welcome fruit indeed.' (Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary)'An excellent companion for those who would like to accompany Barth and Aquinas through their rigorous and biblical accounts of the Holy Spirit.' (Eugene F. Rogers Jr., The University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
About the Author
Christopher R.J. Holmes (ThD, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto) is senior lecturer in Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Christopher is an Anglican priest and is the author of Revisiting the Doctrine of the Divine Attributes: In Dialogue with Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel, and Wolf Krötke (2007), Ethics in the Presence of Christ (2012), as well as many articles on the theology of Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and on Christian doctrine.
Michael Allen (PhD, Wheaton College) is Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL. Michael is a Presbyterian teaching elder and is the author of several books, including Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation (with Scott Swain) and Justification and the Gospel: Understanding the Contexts and Controversies, as well as many articles on Christian doctrine and historical theology. His articles have been published in the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Journal of Theological Interpretation, Scottish Journal of Theology, Horizons in Biblical Theology, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, and Themelios. He serves as general editor (with Scott Swain) for T&T Clark’s International Theological Commentary and Zondervan’s New Studies in Dogmatics series and as book review editor for the International Journal of Systematic Theology.
Scott Swain is Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is author of several books, including The God of the Gospel: The Trinitarian Theology of Robert Jenson, and Trinity, Revelation, and Reading: A Theological Introduction to the Bible and its Interpretation. He serves as general editor (with Michael Allen) for T&T Clark’s International Theological Commentary and Zondervan’s New Studies in Dogmatics series. He is a regular blogger at Reformation21.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Trinitarian dogmatic theology of the Holy Spirit By David M Goetz 4.5 stars.This is the first volume released in a new series, New Studies in Dogmatics. Proposed volumes and contributors (see Zondervan Academic's blog "Common Places" for the list) look very good. This series follows Berkouwer not only in its title but also in its tradition: contributors are thoroughly Reformed. It proposes and contributes to a program of "renewal through retrieval" (15).Sections are as follows:Part 1: Engaging Augustine: The Divinity of the Holy SpiritPart 2: Engaging Thomas: The Hypostatic Subsistence of the Holy SpiritPart 3: Engaging Barth: The Other-Directed SpiritPart 4: Correlates: Regeneration, Church, and TraditionPart 1 answers, What is the Spirit? Part 2 answers, Who is the Spirit? Part 3 answers, How is the Spirit? And part 4 applies the conclusions of these first three parts to the particular issues mentioned above.Holmes uses the engagements of Augustine, Thomas, and Barth with John's Gospel to support his thesis, which is basically that the immanent Trinity explains and gives rise to the economic Trinity. In his words: "There are basic reasons why the three do what they do in creating and, in turn, reconciling and perfecting humankind for a life of blessedness. Those reasons have to do with how the three are. Such talk of how the three are is necessary if we are to understand why God's work toward the outside has the shape that it does" (21).He argues for the Spirit as the Love of God and the Gift of God. The Father and Son love one another always in the Spirit, and the Father gives the Spirit to rest upon the Son. Concerning the filioque, Holmes most often uses the language of "from the Father through the Son," but, with Thomas, he takes "through" as implying "from." The Spirit declares the Son because he just is other-directed. Holmes notes the somewhat common criticism of Barth that he marginalizes the Spirit by presenting the Spirit as one who declares the Word, the Son. (Holmes also skillfully engages Sarah Coakley on this point, who contends for a more robust understanding of the Spirit as the means of incorporation into the life of the Trinity, which Holmes appreciates but also appropriately qualifies as not taking adequately into account the "processions [as] the missions' principle of intelligibility" (39).) In response, Holmes again points to the processions as explaining the missions. "A theological vision," he says, "chastens any sense of voluntarism within the Godhead. The Son does not, for example, decide to become incarnate in conversation with the Father and the Spirit. The Son and Spirit work as they do because of their origins; their work expresses their origins" (206). In connection with this, he shrewdly notes that no one, to his knowledge, suggests that in Barth we find "sublimation of the Father by the Son" (207). "The contours of the economy are Son-centric. The Father commands us to listen to Christ, the Spirit declares Christ. And yet the telos of the economy cannot be said to be Son-centric in any straightforward way" (ibid.). I think Holmes's account of the economic Trinity makes a lot of sense, and I appreciate that he doesn't collapse the immanent Trinity into the economic Trinity.The most interesting sections of the book, in my case, were his explanations of tradition and of contemplation as theology. He thinks of tradition as a theological category, and a salutary one--rightly, I think. "Tradition, rightly understood, is a fruit of the Spirit's continually being breathed upon his people by the glorified Christ" (194). Tradition does not thereby ascend to equal plane with Scripture, but we do value tradition for its ability in the Spirit "to help God's people hear" the W/word of God in Scripture (197). On the subject of contemplation, Holmes argues for contemplation as a participatory activity and at the same time a faithful beholding of the God whom we will see face to face in the hereafter. But this always "remains a gift. In the Spirit we really commune with the Father and the Son. That we do so now in a provisional sense and will in an immediate sense does not take away from the fact that it remains grace all the way down, and that we never cease to be creatures even as we gaze on the divine essence in a world shorn of death. And we will gaze in the Spirit, who is the Father and Son's love proceeding, the one in whom each comes to the other and in whom we forever come to them" (213).Caveat emptor: please note that this is not primarily a work of devotional theology. Neither is it a work in which you should look to find discussions of everything the Spirit does. If you are looking for a theology of the Spirit that devotes more of its time to discussing the work of the Spirit in the economy, consider Sinclair Ferguson's volume by the same name. Note, in other words, that this is a work of joyful dogmatic theology--a work concerned primarily with how the identity of the Spirit illuminates the work of the Spirit among us.In short, this is high-quality theology. Holmes is admirably devotional in his theological rigor, his writing is almost always clear, he helpfully appropriates his three major interlocutors while also making contributions of his own, and he, above all, is sensitive to the intellectual transformations the gospel requires. "Theology," he says, "is the fruit of a renewed vision" (207). I pray with the editors of this new series that this volume in particular and the series as a whole "will contribute to a flourishing theological culture in the church today," to the glory of God (16).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Avid readers of theology will be pleased to know that Zondervan Academic has released the first ... By Zach Barnhart In the wide world of theological studies, one of the many joys we have is watching a highly-anticipated series being birthed and developing over time. Avid readers of theology will be pleased to know that Zondervan Academic has released the first installment of a very important and very insightful series entitled New Studies in Dogmatics, edited by Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain, two of Reformed academia’s leading scholars. The content of each book and goal of the series, according to Allen and Swain’s vision outlined in press releases, is fourfold:Awareness of the “state of the question” pertaining to the doctrine under discussion.Attention to the patterns of biblical reasoning (exegetical, biblical-theological, etc.) from which the doctrine emerges.Engagement with relevant ecclesiastical statements of the doctrine (creedal, conciliar, confessional) as well as leading theologians of the church.Appreciation of the doctrine’s location within the larger system of theology as well as its contribution to Christian piety and practice.The first volume released from this series centers on the person of the Holy Spirit, and is tasked with the presentation of this doctrine. Author and Professor Christopher R.J. Holmes does a fabulous job of achieving the goals of the series through this volume, evident in the structure and outline of the book. After a helpful introduction, Holmes engages this topic mainly through three lenses, each time highlighting a different theologian and his particular area of contribution to the pneumatological conversation, with much time spent in the Gospel of John.Part One is centered around Augustine, and discusses the question, “What is the Spirit?” Part Two explores Thomas Aquinas, and considers the question, “Who is the Spirit?” Part Three looks at Karl Barth, and examines the question, “How does the Spirit do things?” Finally, Holmes closes out this book with an important chapter on the intersection between these theologians and issues they address. To this end, the author writes to help us not only with our discernment but also in our communication of this vital doctrine.There are a lot of high points in this book. One of my favorite components of it is how Holmes has digested the works of three of the most important thinkers in church history. Specifically he has zeroed in on how their thought should train us in our own understanding of the Holy Spirit.Holmes does a great job of guiding the reader through avoiding potential mistakes these men made in their studies. To do this, he helps his readers reflect on the importance of growing in their understanding on this doctrine. For example, in the chapter “Heavenly Things,” part of his engagement with Augustine, Holmes helps us understand the careful distinctions that Augustine made between “being-language” and “subsistence language” (65), which is a paradigm-shifting idea.Holmes is not afraid to show the differences between these three men, and further, why we should consider them. On page 145, Holmes suggests that while Thomas may not disagree with “Barth’s rule,” he probably would find it to be incomplete. This cross-examination style is helpful, especially because it allows us to easily connect the dots throughout centuries of church history.One of the strongest elements of this book is how Holmes shows the importance of the Holy Spirit. Many may think that this is simply academic, cloud-level talk and doesn’t really get to the ground level, but Holmes, and I would argue otherwise. “Why the talk of who and how the Spirit is in God?” Holmes asks. “Because the New Testament encourages such talk” (163). Not only this, but as Holmes shows throughout, building a more exegetical and logical explanation of the Trinity helps us not reduce Him to “the forgotten Third Person of the Trinity,” keeping us on guard against heresies, such as Arianism, Modalism, and Tritheism. This is an important topic of discussion, and an important series that’s beginning to unfold. Don’t miss the significant conversations being had in New Studies in Dogmatics.
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