The Holy Spirit

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Excerpt from The Holy Spirit: In Thought and Experience It is a frequent and well-founded complaint that the doctrine of the Holy Spirit has been strangely neglected by theologians. Our theological text-books, as a rule, pass over the subject with a few conventional pages. Recent works by Noesgen, Gunkel, and Weinel in Germany, and by Dr. Swete in England, have revived interest in the study of it. My aim in the following pages has been to bring together the materials available, and to present, in my own way, a coherent account of them. I had to confine my treatment within limits defined by the series in which the book appears. Many aspects of the subject had to be touched upon lightly or not at all. I regret particularly that it has not been possible to include a chapter on the development of the idea of spirit in general, from primitive Animism, through the Greek ideas of mind and soul and the mediæval philosophy of substance, to the modern view of self-conscious personality. Much light would thereby have been shed on the growth of the idea of God and His Spirit. The approach to our doctrine from the side of psychology has only just been begun, and it promises a fruitful development in the future. I can only hope that the present study, with all its limitations, may contribute something to the gaining of a point of view for a fuller and more concrete apprehension of those facts of the spiritual life, which the Christian Church has generally indicated in its confession of faith in the Holy Spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.