I broke away from Word-Faith teachings about 25 years ago. In the course of reevaluating and rebuilding my theology over the next few years, some books were quite helpful:
Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, and Listening to the Spirit in the Text, both by Gordon Fee. (Nerdier people like me will probably end up also getting God's Empowering Presence, also by Fee. It preceded the first book listed here, and is much more detailed and comprehensive -- and much, especially in the footnotes, is over my head; it was refined and condensed into Paul, the Spirit,... for a more "regular" readership.)
Gift and Giver -- The Holy Spirit for Today, by Craig Keener.
Keener's book is interesting for recounting a lot of his own personal experiences with the Spirit, in addition to exegesis of Scripture.
Fee's books... This is a very subjective thing. I'd had a sense there were things in Scripture that were just out of reach, that I could sort of glimpse, and then they'd pop out of sight. Several places in Fee's books, I had that "Aha! THAT'S what it was!" experience.
Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, and Listening to the Spirit in the Text, both by Gordon Fee. (Nerdier people like me will probably end up also getting God's Empowering Presence, also by Fee. It preceded the first book listed here, and is much more detailed and comprehensive -- and much, especially in the footnotes, is over my head; it was refined and condensed into Paul, the Spirit,... for a more "regular" readership.)
Gift and Giver -- The Holy Spirit for Today, by Craig Keener.
Keener's book is interesting for recounting a lot of his own personal experiences with the Spirit, in addition to exegesis of Scripture.
Fee's books... This is a very subjective thing. I'd had a sense there were things in Scripture that were just out of reach, that I could sort of glimpse, and then they'd pop out of sight. Several places in Fee's books, I had that "Aha! THAT'S what it was!" experience.
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