Covenant, Community, and the Spirit: A Trinitarian Theology of Church
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This comprehensive textbook by theologian Robert Sherman brings together two perennial issues in Christian theology: the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and ecclesiology. It demonstrates the importance of the Holy Spirit in empowering the being and mission of the church and shows how the church’s identity and calling are embedded in the larger covenantal purposes of the triune God. Accessibly written with pastors in training in mind, Covenant, Community, and the Spirit probes the classic rubrics of the church as the people of God, the body of Christ, and the temple of the Holy Spirit. This book ignites readers’ ecclesiological imaginations and reclaims a more biblical, theological, and pastoral vision of church.
For more from Robert Sherman, check out King, Priest, and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement.
Key Features
- Examines the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and ecclesiology
- Unpacks traditional views of the church’s identity
- Reclaims a biblical vision of the church
Contents
- The Story Begins
- The Spirit’s Covenantal Role in the Work of the Trinity
- The Body of Christ
- The People of God
- The Temple of the Holy Spirit
- A Pilgrim Community of the New Heaven and the New Earth
Top Highlights
“My sense is that we need our ecclesiological imaginations reclaimed and reignited by a more biblical, theological, and pastoral vision of the Church: the community of nurture, accountability, and mission grounded in Christ and given life and a final purpose (telos) by the Holy Spirit.” (Page xii)
“not the egocentric ‘I think, therefore I am,’ but the theocentric ‘God loves, therefore we are.’” (Page 2)
“We yearn for community because we were meant for community: it is built into our very nature as human beings.” (Page 1)
“to offer a foretaste of reality so glorious and compelling that most people would find it inconceivable” (Page xi)
“Human beings can survive just about anything other than the loss of meaning or purpose.” (Page 4)
Praise for the Print Edition
Written with clarity and full of biblical and practical discernment, Covenant, Community, and the Spirit displays the riches that Christian teaching about the Trinity and the Holy Spirit brings to our experience and understanding of the church. This is generous Reformed theology at its best.
—John Webster, professor of divinity, University of St. Andrews
Robert Sherman integrates topics that too often float apart, especially personal salvation, the work of the Spirit, and the nature and mission of the church. Deeply rooted in Scripture and the wisdom of Christian interpretation, this exploration is also wonderfully accessible. This is a welcome contribution to the ecumenical conversation, but it is more than that; it is a personally enriching and edifying meditation on what it means to belong to the people of the Triune God.
—Michael Horton, J.G. Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary California
About Robert Sherman
Robert Sherman previously served as the Richard P. Buck Professor of Christian Theology at Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine. A leading theologian of the Reformed tradition, he is the author of King, Priest, and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement.
Sample Pages from the Print Edition
Reviews
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Rafael
5/9/2018
This book gives a real cosmovisión of the mission of the Holly Spirit. Most of al believers see four walls in the church but ignore what God has been working with every generation of believers threw the history and present time of he´s church. I have just read one page and i feel the peace of God.