Theology of the Holy Spirit
Greystone Theological Institute is pleased to announce a new full course resource now available on Greystone Connect. In Theology of the Holy Spirit, Dr. Robert Letham explores the doctrine of the Holy Spirit from biblical and theological angles.
This course first explores the dogmatic consensus of biblical interpretation in the history of the Church and then builds upon that foundation as guidance for hearing the Scriptures faithfully in our time. This course therefore starts with the official dogma of the Church before moving to consider the biblical material. This approach avoids the danger of inventing new constructions that lack the wisdom of the Spirit at work in the Church historically, thus rooting our current thinking in the Scriptures in the light of the historic consensus fidelium. What we seek is a properly biblical, conspicuously Christian, and freshly contemporary understanding of the person and work of the Spirit.
Course Lectures:
Early Works
1. The Relationship between Scripture and Tradition
2. Athanasius
The Holy Spirit and the Trinitarian Crisis
3. Didymus the Blind and Basil the Great
4. Gregory of Nazianzus, the Nicene Creed, and the Synod of Rome
Consolidation
5. Augustine
6. Augustine (Continued)
Later Developments
7. The Filioque Controversy
8. The Spirit as Love and as Gift
Early Modern and Modern Thought
9. Calvin and the Westminster Assembly
10. Spirit Christology
Old Testament
11. Old Testament
Jesus and the Spirit: From Conception to Ascension
12. Jesus and the Spirit: From Conception to Ascension
The Spirit and the Church
13. Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost
14. Apostolic Ministry and the Relation of the Holy Spirit to the Church
The Spirit and the Future
15. The Lord’s Supper and Theosis
16. Global Pentecostalism
The Greystone Membership
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