Light of Truth and Fire of Love

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