It is the Spirit Who Gives Life

"Duquesne University has been sponsoring a major annual lecture and colloquy about the Holy Spirit since 2005. The eleven lectures gathered here represent the rich and abundant fruit of those efforts. Ably edited and introduced by Fr. Radu Bordeianu, these lectures are simultaneously biblical, historical, theological, and ecumenical. There is more to be done to enliven the relatively neglected study of pneumatology, but this is an impressive collection. Highly recommended."—David P. Gushee, Mercer University

"Despite a growing interest in pneumatology, an annual lecture series dedicated to the topic is still a rarity. Rarer still is the stellar line-up of scholars who have given the Holy Spirit Lectures at Duquesne University and whose presentations are brought together here. Radu Bordeianu has crafted these into a cutting-edge volume that deals not only with doctrinal questions but interrogates the wider meaning of 'spirit' and considers social implications of the Spirit's life-giving work."—Kirsteen Kim, Fuller Theological Seminary

"A fascinating collection of irreplaceable essays. One of the best in the past quarter century."—Eugene F. Rogers, Jr., author of After the Spirit: A Constructive Pneumatology from Resources outside the Modern World

"It was President Charles J. Dougherty of Duquesne University who first invited and encouraged me to imagine the possibility of organizing an endowed, annual lectureship in the theology of the Holy Spirit, as a way of remaining faithful to Duquesne's mission as a university of the Holy Spirit under the guidance of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. President Dougherty's initial impulse was, I truly believe, a Spirit-inspired gift to us all which, as Psalm 1 says, is like a tree planted near streams of flowing water which will yield its fruit in an appropriate time. And this very attractive book, made so by the very imaginative lectures given at and explored by the colloquists, is one such fruit of the Spirit. May the Spirit, the Comforter, guide many into yet deeper and richer dimensions of the Spirit's mission through this book."—William Thompson-Uberuaga, Emeritus Professor of Theology, Duquesne University