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The Holy Spirit in Thought and Experience
The Holy Spirit in Thought and Experience Author:Thomas Rees General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Subjects: Holy Spirit Religion / General Religion / Christian Theology / Pneumatology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the... more » General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II THE HOLY SPIRIT 1. Jewish thought after the exile divided into two separate and distinct types. One grew up on the native soil of Palestine, centred around Jerusalem and the temple worship, was expressed in the changing forms of the Hebrew language and culminated in Rabbinic legalism. The other developed in the alien atmosphere of Alexandria, where the language and thought of Greece predominated, and where the Hebrew mind conformed to the fashions and assumed the forms of Greek culture. The Old Testament idea of the Spirit had little affinity with the ruling principles of either, and no great part in them. Yet both assimilated it to some extent, and both formed a link in the development of the doctrine. Palestinian Judaism was the environment in which Christian thought originated, and Alexandrian thought contributed many of the terms and concepts employed by the early theologians of the Christian Church. 2. Palestinian thought was the direct line of development from the Old Testament to the New Testament, and to some extent it overlapped both. Its record is found in some of the later writings that were admitted into the Canon of the Old Testament, in the Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphic books,1 in the Targums and Talmuds,8in the writings of Josephus and in the first three Gospels. The relevant literature in the Old Testament includes the Wisdom literature, most of the Psalms, portions of Isaiah xxiv.-xxvii., xxxii.-xxxv., Ivi.-lxvi., Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Dani...« less