Holy Spirit

“The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.  Now we have received… the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”

1 Cor. 2:11,12

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Subsection 

Filioque
Common Grace
Cessationism

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Order of Contents

Articles  5
Books  2
Historical  1


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Articles

1600’s

Thysius, Anthony – 9. ‘On the Person of the Holy Spirit’  in Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text & English Translation  Buy  (1625; Brill, 2016), vol. 1, pp. 228-46

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1700’s

De Moore, Bernardinus – Continuous Commentary, ch. 5, ‘On the Trinity’

11. Procession of the Holy Spirit & John 15:26, pt. 1, 2
11. Procession of the Spirit as Spiration
11. The Spirit as “Holy”
12. Controversy of the Greeks & Latin over the Procession of the Spirit

23. Truth of the Spirit’s Person Defended, pt. 1, 2, 3, 4
24. Spirit as a Distinct Person
24. Spirit as a Single Person
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26-27. Defense of the Deity of the Holy Spirit, pt. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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1800’s

Buchanan, James – The Office & Work of the Holy Spirit  (1843)

‘The Spirit as the Comforter’, pp. 277-84

‘The Work of the Spirit as the Spirit of Holiness’, pp. 239-49

‘The Work of the Spirit as the Spirit of Prayer’, pp. 269-76

‘Cornelius – Acts 10’, pp. 174-85

‘The Holy Spirit Enlightening the Mind’

Hodge, Charles, ‘The Nature of Tongues’   in Commentary on 1 Corinthians, 12:10, five paragraphs

Hodge argues for the traditional interpretation that Biblical “tongues” were real, intelligible, foreign languages, not unintelligible babble, contra charismatics and pentecostals

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1900’s

Berkhof, Louis – ‘The Operation of the Holy Spirit in General’  in Systematic Theology  (1950)


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Books

1600’s

Poole, Matthew – Blasphemer Slaine with the Sword of the Spirit  in The Literary Labors of the Reverend Matthew Poole, vol. 2  Buy  (2013)  71 pp.

“John Bidle’s XII Arguments Drawn out of the Scripture; wherein the commonly Received Opinion, Touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit, Is clearly and fully Refuted (1647) was answered by several Reformed theologians and scholars, both continental and British.  These responses were full, demonstrative, and clear; but they were written largely for academics.

It fell to a young parish minister, Matthew Poole, not yet thirty years of age, to provide a concise and popular response, for the edification of the common man.  Poole’s Blasphemer Slaine with the Sword of the Spirit remains one of the best popular defenses of the Deity of the Holy Spirit in the English language.”

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1800’s

Buchanan, James – The Office & Work of the Holy Spirit  (1843)  519 pp.  ToC

A classic, book length exposition of the beloved third person of the Trinity.  This as well as his book on Justification reflect his work as professor of Systematic Theology, following Dr. Thomas Chalmers in that chair in 1847 in the New College of the Free Church.


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Historical

On the Reformation

Stephens, W. Peter – The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Martin Bucer  (Cambridge University Press, 1970)  300 pp.  ToC

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Related Pages

Sealing of the Spirit