IVP - Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament

Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament

(paperback)

Christopher J. H. Wright

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Length: 160 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: October 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8308-2591-2
IVP Order Code: 2591

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About the Book

We tend to think of the Holy Spirit as the straggler of the Trinity, a latecomer in God's interaction with the world. But our first introduction to the Holy Spirit is not the drama of Pentecost in the second chapter of Acts. We first meet the Holy Spirit in the second verse of the Bible, hovering there, speaking the world into existence.

Christopher Wright begins here and traces the Holy Spirit through the pages of the Old Testament. We see the Third Person of the Trinity in the decrees of prophets and psalmists, in the actions of judges and craftspeople, in the anointing of kings and the promise of a new creation.

Knowable and discernable in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit is thus eminently knowable to us. The witness of the whole of Scripture, from its first pages to its last, directs us to a Holy Spirit empowering the people of God, and sustaining and renewing the face of the earth.