Light of Truth and Fire of Love by Gary D Badcock

Light of Truth and Fire of Love by Gary D Badcock

The doctrine of the Holy Spirit has often been a neglected theme in Christian thought. In Light of Truth and Fire of Love Gary D. Badcock attempts to redress this theological imbalance and to reassert the centrality of the doctrine of the Spirit in Christian theology.

Badcock begins by surveying what both the Old and New Testaments have to say about the Spirit. Next he traces the history of the theology of the Spirit, examining a number of crucial episodes and questions in the field of pneumatology in the history of Christian thought, and then proceeds to develop a contemporary theology of the Spirit. Badcock goes on to relate this theology of the Spirit to the theological enterprise initiated by Karl Barth earlier in this century -- the return to the doctrine of the Trinity as the framework for Christian reflection. Setting forth the positive and negative results of much of contemporary trinitarian theology, Badcock ultimately makes a case for a balanced doctrine of the Word and the Spirit in which neither is subordinated to the other.

Gary D. Badcock is Peache Professor of Divinity at Huron University College, London, Ontario. A Canadian who studied theology at the University of Edinburgh, he has taught Systematic Theology in Scotland and in Canada for the past twenty years. In addition to numerous periodical articles and chapters in books, he is the author of three monographs in theology, most recently The House where God Lives (Eerdmans, 2009), and has edited or co-edited several others. He is also co-founder of the Centre for Public Theology. Darren C. Marks is Assistant Professor of Theology and Jewish Studies at Huron University College, London, Ontario. He is the author of dozens of articles in systematic theology, philosophy and Jewish Studies and the author/editor of several texts in theology. His research interests include global theology, public theology, Jewish-Christian relationship and science and theology. He is also co-founder of the Centre for Public Theology.

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ISBN 13	9780802842886
ISBN 10	0802842887
Title	Light of Truth and Fire of Love
Author	Gary D Badcock
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Year published	1997-04-17
Number of pages	316
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