Power and the Spirit of God Toward an Experience-Based Pneumatology

by Bernard Cooke

Book Overview

In this book the distinguished Roman Catholic theologian Bernard Cooke reassesses the long-standing Christian description of divine power. The word "power" evokes the spheres of economic, political, and social life. Cooke suggests, however, that the deepest questions about conflicting powers are theological and concern what Christians have traditionally referred to as "the Holy Spirit" and "salvation." He believes that the twentieth-century reappraisal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195382641
• ISBN13: 9780195382648
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"