Trinitarian Pneumatological Personhood and the Theology of John Zizioulas
Ebook
In a growing secular society, what distinguishes a Christian from a non-Christian? Is a Christian identified by certain religious and ceremonial activity, social action, principles, or do their relationships identify them as Christian? This book suggests that a Christian person is in a continual relationship with the Triune God through the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, this living relationship reflects the eternal relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, because people have been created in the image and likeness of the Triune God. This book uses historical, theological, philosophical, and biblical approaches to understand the Christian person. Throughout this book, the reader will be engaged with the modern Greek theologian, John Zizioulas. However, this book is a study on the person of the Holy Spirit, though never separated from the trinitarian relationship, who makes a human person a Christian.
“Ronald Adkins highlights the personal dynamics in the Christian understanding of the Trinity, based on the pneumatological (Spirit-oriented) theology of John Zizioulas. Zizioulas and Adkins emphasize the relationships between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, which help us to focus on right relations as much (or more) than on right beliefs about the Trinity.”
—Don Thorsen, Azusa Pacific Seminary
“As Pergamum’s angel once received praise and critique from the Revelator (Rev 2:12–17), so does its current bishop, Greek Orthodox theologian John Zizioulas, from Ronald Adkins. Writing as a Wesleyan evangelical, he recognizes how his own tradition (and Pentecostals too) can profit from Zizioulas’s theology of personhood while correcting its deficiencies. This volume advances the ecumenical cross-fertilization of the Trinitarian renaissance. As the Revelator would say: Those who have an ear, let them hear!”
—Jerome Van Kuiken, Oklahoma Wesleyan University
“Nearly forty years on from John Zizioulas’s seminal work on personhood, Ron Adkins addresses its impact on how we should view the human person. Adkins challenges the reader to think through what it means for human personhood to be made alive in and through Jesus Christ, whose own personhood is radically Trinitarian. For anyone interested in theological anthropology, especially from a specifically Trinitarian perspective, this is a must-read.”
—Graham McFarlane, London School of Theology
- Title: Trinitarian Pneumatological Personhood and the Theology of John Zizioulas
- Author: II Ronald L. Adkins
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666795455, 9781666736717, 9781666795448, 1666795453, 1666736716, 1666795445
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666795455
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-15T22:36:11Z
Ronald L. Adkins II is the pastor of the Urbana Church of Christ in Christian Union. He has earned a BA, Ohio Christian University; MDiv, Wesley Biblical Seminary; STM, Trinity Lutheran Seminary; and PhD London School of Theology, Middlesex University. He has been a Conference Superintendent, Pastor, and Professor. Ron and his wife Jan have four children.