The Spirit of Life and the Spirit of Immortality:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" The Spirit of Life and the Spirit of Immortality: "
Frank D. Macchia

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1080616
Doc. No	:	LA124245
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157007411X554721‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Frank D. Macchia
Title & Author	:	The Spirit of Life and the Spirit of Immortality: [Article] : An Appreciative Review of Levison’s Filled with the Spirit\ Frank D. Macchia
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Pneuma
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	33/1
Page No	:	69–78
Abstract	:	Levison’s Filled with the Spirit explores the deep difference between the two Testaments in how Spirit filling is understood. While the Old Testament holds Spirit filling to be a flourishing of human life through an interaction of divine and human initiatives, the New Testament sees it as a subsequent gift granted supernaturally through faith in Christ. Yet, there is also a sense of continuity in the midst of this difference, especially in how the flourishing of life resists death. This review appreciatively explores Levison’s understanding of such biblical tensions and continuities in the light of the one-sided accent of Pentecostalism on the supernatural quality of life in the Spirit, but also in the light of the question as to whether or not Levison has unnecessarily widened the gap between the pneumatologies of the two Testaments. Levison’s Filled with the Spirit explores the deep difference between the two Testaments in how Spirit filling is understood. While the Old Testament holds Spirit filling to be a flourishing of human life through an interaction of divine and human initiatives, the New Testament sees it as a subsequent gift granted supernaturally through faith in Christ. Yet, there is also a sense of continuity in the midst of this difference, especially in how the flourishing of life resists death. This review appreciatively explores Levison’s understanding of such biblical tensions and continuities in the light of the one-sided accent of Pentecostalism on the supernatural quality of life in the Spirit, but also in the light of the question as to whether or not Levison has unnecessarily widened the gap between the pneumatologies of the two Testaments.
Descriptor	:	Pentecostalism
Descriptor	:	pneumatology
Descriptor	:	Spirit filling
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157007411X554721‬