The Spirit in the Gospels and Acts
Overview
Carefully mine the New Testament gospels and the book of Acts to understand what the Holy Spirit meant in the lives of early believers with Craig Keener. Christianity did not arise in a vacuum, but rather it appropriated, modified, and utilized the Jewish understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. By understanding the world in which Christianity emerged, we can better understand the earliest believers’ experience of God’s empowering and purifying Spirit.
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- Explores what the Holy Spirit meant in the lives of early believers
- Features the work of a leading twenty-first-century biblical scholar
- Examines the Holy Spirit in the teaching and events of the New Testament
- The Spirit of Purity and Prophecy in Early Judaism
- Jesus as the Spirit-Bringer in Mark 1:9–11
- Matthew’s Perspective on the Spirit-Bringer
- The Spirit and Purification in the Fourth Gospel
- Pentecost, Prophecy, and Proclamation to All Peoples
Top Highlights
“the Spirit of God or Holy Spirit as the Spirit that purifies” (Page 9)
“For John the Baptist, his first Jewish hearers, and presumably Luke’s implied audience, the main point is that the baptism in the Spirit signals the time of the kingdom.” (Page 191)
“Particularly outside the rabbinic literature, prophecy was generally not believed to have ceased.118” (Page 16)
“In modern terms, a Spirit-empowered disciple is to be a charismatic post-tribulationist, taking seriously Jesus’ claims to a radical faith that both delivers people from the clutch of Satan’s kingdom and suffers the apocalyptic pangs that are the cost of this battle. Mark is not opposed to signs, but signs must be understood in the context of mission; and the mission in which the Spirit leads the disciples must always stand under the shadow of the cross, until ‘the Son of man comes in glory.’” (Page 71)
“When the Spirit comes on Jesus in 1:10, he becomes the model for the Spirit-baptized life; those he later baptizes in the Spirit should follow his paradigm. When in the next pericope the Spirit thrusts Jesus into the wilderness for the devil’s testing (1:12–13), we learn the purpose Mark wishes to emphasize for Spirit baptism: the Spirit equips believers to confront hostile powers as they proclaim and demonstrate the reign of God.” (Page 70)
[A] detailed and stimulating treatment of the selected passages, and full of observations beyond the proposed ambit of the study.
—Bill Salier, Reformed Theological Review
Keener handles both the biblical text and extra-biblical sources carefully and even-handedly. He refers consistently to primary sources, and he has included extensive bibliographical resources and indexes.
—John D. Harvey, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
- Title: The Spirit in the Gospels and Acts: Divine Purity and Power
- Author: Craig Keener
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Holy Spirit › Biblical teaching; Prophecy › Christianity--Biblical teaching; Purity, ritual › Christianity--Biblical teaching; Bible. N.T. Gospels › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. N.T. Acts › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Holy Spirit (Judaism) › History of doctrines
- ISBNs: 9781441222749, 9780801046773, 1565631692, 144122274X, 0801046777, 9781565631694
- Resource ID: LLS:SPRTGSPLSPRTPWR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:06:29Z
Dr. Craig S. Keener (PhD, Duke University) is professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary, and is the author of 17 books, four of which have won book awards in Christianity Today. One, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament, has sold more than half a million copies. He has authored scholarly commentaries on Matthew, John (two volumes), Acts (four volumes), and more briefly on Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and Revelation. Dr. Keener is married to Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener, who spent 18 months as a refugee in her nation of Congo before their marriage.
