The Person and Ministry of the Holy Spirit

A Weslean Perspective

Plot

The title of this book is intended to be definitive of its content, namely, The Person and Ministry of the Holy Spirit. The subtitle, A Wesleyan Perspective, is further definitive in that it locates, though it does not limit, the work within the Wesleyan theological tradition. The title is further definitive in that it indicates this work to be a study of the person and activities of the Holy Spirit, and not a doctrine of the Holy Spirit per se, though such a doctrine may be deduced from the Bible. Nor is this book intended as a systematic theology of the Holy Spirit, though quite inescapably it does reflect certain theological implications. Rather, the present work attempts to understand and trace, from a biblical perspective, the divine person and activity of the Holy Spirit from his participation in the creation of the universe, and particularly man, throughout the biblical history of redemption to the final call of man to salvation in Christ, as is recorded in the closing words of the Bible in Revelation 22:17. - Preface.