Burgess,   Stanley M. <br/><br/>
The Spirit & the Church  Antiquity 
Stanley M. Burgess 
 - U.S.A  Hendrickson Publishers  1984 
 - 216tr.  Paperback, Illustration  22 cm 
<br/><br/> The Christian centuries have witnessed a tension"" sometimes waxing, sometimes waning, but always present"" between the spirit of order and the spirit of prophecy. In the ancient church, representatives of institutional order, in an effort to keep the development of Spirit doctrine within a recognizable tradition, muffled the immediacy of religious experience. Prophetic elements came to be viewed with distrust and remained in the institutional church only at the cost of severe internal tension. In this work, the author recognizes the wealth of Spirit theology and activity in both traditions, and the need for modern Christians to gain a deeper and wider vision of the workings of the Holy Spirit in history and in our own generation. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0913573108 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church - History - ca 30-600 (Early Church)<br/>Holy Spirit -- History of doctrines<br/>Theology
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>231.3  / B955-S79