Baptism in the Holy Spirit: A Reexamination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Spirit in relation to Pentecostalism Today (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780334043881)

In Baptism in the Holy Spirit James Dunn argues that water baptism is only one element in the New Testament pattern of conversion and initiation. The gift of the Spirit, he believes, is the central element. For the writers of the New Testament only those who had received the Holy Spirit could be called Christians. For them, the reception of the Spirit was a very definite and often very dramatic experience - the decisive and climactic experience in conversion-initiation - to which Christians were usually recalled when reminded of their Christian faith and experience.James Dunn uncovers the place of the gift of the Holy Spirit in the total complex event of becoming a Christian.

Author: James D. G. Dunn
ISBN-10: 0334043883
ISBN-13: 9780334043881
Publisher: SCM Press
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2010
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.80d