Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

I. Howard Marshall (1934-2015) was professor emeritus of New Testament exegesis and honorary research professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His many books include New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel and Beyond the Bible: Moving from Scripture to Theology.

Cornelis Bennema teaches New Testament studies at the London School of Theology. His publications include A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John, Mimesis in the Johannine Literature, and Imitation in Early Christianity: Mimesis and Religious-Ethical Formation.

Volker Rabens is research scholar of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religions" and lecturer in New Testament at Bochum University, Germany. His publications include The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul.

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The Spirit and Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Contents

Contributors.......................................................................................................................................................................viiiAbbreviations......................................................................................................................................................................xiiiEditors' Foreword..................................................................................................................................................................xivAn Introduction to Max Turner Steve Walton........................................................................................................................................xvi"The Lord, the Giver of Life": The Gift of the Spirit as Both Life-giving and Empowering James D. G. Dunn.........................................................................1The Spirit, Simeon, and the Songs of the Servant John R. Levison..................................................................................................................18Whose Spirit? The Promise and the Promiser in Luke 12:12 Steve Walton.............................................................................................................35The Persecuted Prophets: A Mirror Image of Luke's Spirit-Inspired Church Robert P. Menzies........................................................................................52"Was It Not Necessary for the Messiah to Suffer These Things and Enter into His Glory?" The Significance of Jesus' Death for Luke's Soteriology Joel B. Green.....................71The Giving of the Spirit in John 19–20: Another Round Cornelis Bennema......................................................................................................86Is Faith in Christ Without Evidence Superior Faith? A Re-examination of John 20:29 D. A. Carson...................................................................................105Apollos and the Ephesian Disciples: Befores and Afters (Acts 18:24–19:7) Conrad Gempf.......................................................................................119Power from In Between: The Relational Experience of the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts in Paul's Churches Volker Rabens..........................................................138Divine Spirit and Human Spirit in Paul in the Light of Stoic and Biblical-Jewish Perspectives Desta Heliso........................................................................156Ephesians and Divine-Christology Chris Tilling....................................................................................................................................177Salvation's Bath by the Spirit: A Study of Titus 3:5b-6 in Its Canonical Setting Robert W. Wall...................................................................................198The Spirit in Hebrews: No Longer Forgotten? Steve Motyer..........................................................................................................................213New Jerusalem and the Conversion of the Nations: An Exercise in Pneumatic Discernment (Rev. 21:1–22:5) John Christopher Thomas..............................................228Moses as "God" in Philo of Alexandria: A Precedent for Christology? Richard Bauckham..............................................................................................246Jesus and the Spirit in Biblical and Theological Perspective: Messianic Empowering, Saving Wisdom, and the Limits of Biblical Theology Mark L. Strauss............................266Cyril of Alexandria and the Incarnation Anthony N. S. Lane........................................................................................................................285"By the Washing of Regeneration and Renewal in the Holy Spirit": Towards a Pneumatological Theology of Justification Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen..............................303Towards a Theology of Togetherness — Life through the Spirit Graham McFarlane...............................................................................................323Creative Reason and the Spirit: Identifying, Evaluating, and Developing Paradigms of Pneumatology André Munzinger............................................................336List of Publications by Max Turner.................................................................................................................................................356List of Published PhD Dissertations by Max Turner's Research Students..............................................................................................................361Index of Authors...................................................................................................................................................................363

Chapter One

James D. G. Dunn

Much of the recent debate about the Holy Spirit and the gift of the Spirit has focused on the distinction between the life-giving Spirit and the charismatic Spirit or Spirit of prophecy. This is understandable since within the early Judeo-Christian perception of the Spirit both aspects are prominent, and usually in different circumstances. Consequently in the debate occasioned by the classic Pentecostal conception of baptism in the Spirit as a separate work of the Spirit subsequent to and distinct from the Spirit's soteriological or life-giving work, any distinction between the life-giving Spirit and the charismatic or empowering Spirit is grist to the mill. It was on the basis of such a distinction that resolution has traditionally been sought with regard to the Acts accounts of the first Pentecost and as a solution to the puzzle of Samaria in Acts 8. For earlier generations (and centuries) it was natural to assume that the first disciples had already received the life-giving Spirit during their time with Jesus, and only at Pentecost received the Spirit empowering for witness (Acts 1:8). In particular, if John's Gospel can be neatly slotted into the fuller history of Luke, then it can be readily argued that such a passage as John 13:10 or 15:3 indicates that the disciples were already "born again" (3:5), so that the subsequent Pentecostal outpouring of the Spirit can be readily distinguished as the giving of the charismatic Spirit (Acts 2:4). And in Acts 8 we have what is probably the classic instance where such a distinction seems to be required and to make best sense. The Samaritans had both believed and been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus (8:12), and yet "the Spirit had not come upon any of them" (8:16); it was through the subsequent laying on of Peter's and John's hands that "they received the Holy Spirit" (8:17). So, for example, Calvin inferred that the Samaritan believers were "regenerate" and "endued with the Spirit of adoption" as a result of Philip's ministry. What they subsequently experienced through the laying on of Peter's and John's hands were "excellent graces of the Spirit." In my Baptism, chapter 5, I noted a fair number of similar expositions, from both Catholic and Protestant commentators. And not surprisingly it is the same distinction between soteriological Spirit and empowering Spirit (two distinct works of the same Spirit) which provided the...