The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life

Introduction: The Presence of the Spirit as an Interdisciplinary Concern; Wolfgang Vondey 1. Mapping the Hermeneutical Waters: The Holy Spirit and the Revitalization of Interpretation; Steven B. Sherman 2. Monasticism: Instrument of the Holy Spirit in the Renewal of Today's Church; Greg Peters 3. Absence Makes the Heart Grow: Longing and the Spirit in the Theology of St. Augustine; Daniel Strand 4. Hugh of St. Victor and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit; Lisa Millen 5. A Lutheran Engagement with Wesley on the Work of the Holy Spirit; Cheryl M. Peterson 6. The Allurer of the Soul: The Holy Spirit in Puritan Preaching; David M. Barbee 7. Baptism by Fire: The Work of the Holy Spirit in Pascal's Philosophy; Janelle Aijian 8. The Holy Spirit and the Miraculous: John Wesley's Egalitarian View of the Supernatural and its Problems; Robert Webster 9. Apocalyptic Pneumatology and the Holy Spirits in the Religions: The Contributions of Christoph Blumhardt; Christian T. Collins Winn 10. An Improbable Bond of the Spirit: Historical Perspectives on the Christian Life in Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational Theologies; Joshua D. Reichard 11. The Passion of/for Pentecost: Hermeneutics, Heterology, and the "Hauntology" of the Spirit; B. Keith Putt Conclusion: Christianity and Renewal - A Plea for Interdisciplinarity; Wolfgang Vondey Afterword; Amos Yong