Books on the Holy Spirit (and related issues):

The following is a list of books I have related to the person and work of the Holy Spirit and related issues:

Stanley M. Horton's What the Bible Says about the Holy Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, Revised edition, 2005). An overview of the Holy Spirit from Genesis to Revelation with some practical and pastoral teaching on the role of the Spirit in the life of the believer and the church.

Wilf Hildebrandt's An Old Testament Theology of the Spirit of God (Hendrickson 1995). Here Hildebrandt explores every occurance of the Hebrew word for spirit "ruach" in the Old Testament. (A sort of OT version of Fee's GEP but shorter and less massive).

A Reader on the Holy Spirit: Anointing Equipping and Empowering for Service (ICFG, 1993). This is a compendium of articles on various issues related to the Holy Spirit by various folks in the Foursquare Church.

Gordon Fee's God's Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul (Hendrickson, 1994). The standard scholarly work on the Person and work of the Holy Spirit in Paul.

Gordon Fee's Paul, the Spirit and the People of God, (Hendrickson, 1996). An abridged and slightly modified version of GEP. Simply a must have for every Christian. Really, reading this book will challenge and probably change how you view what "church" is all about.

Gary Burge's The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition (Eerdmans, 1987). More or less Gary Burge's doctoral dissertation in published format. Issues regarding a Johannine community aside (cf. Bauckham) it is a solid work on the role of the Spirit in John's writings.

Robert P. Menzies, Empowered for Witness: The Spirit in Luke-Acts (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991). I have a slightly different copy than the one linked and at a substantially cheaper cost from when Debbie and I were at the Asia Pacific Theological Seminary in Baguio City in the Philippines in 2005. This is a published version of Menzies' doctoral dissertation and is a quite scholarly approach to the Spirit in Luke Acts. If I thought I could, I would love to go back and complete a ThM in Pentecostal/Charismatic Studies at APTS!

William W. and Robert P. Menzies' Spirit and Power: Foundations of Pentecostal Experience (A call to Evangelical Dialogue) (Zondervan, 2000). This is a toned down variation of Roberts more scholarly approach in Empowered for Witness and probably a good place to star for those wanting to review and critique a theology of the Pentecostal Experience (basically it is a defense of IPE doctrine).

Roger Stronstad, The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke (Hendrickson, 1984). This is Strontads Masters Thesis. While it is a bit dated but still a solid presentation of the Holy Spirit in the Lukan Narratives. This would be good to get with Menzies' Spirit and Power book.

Blaine Charette, Restoring Presence: The Spirit in Matthew's Gospel (Sheffied Academic Press, 2000). Charette here presents one of the few (if not the only) solid case for a Matthean Pnumatology (theology of the Spirit).

Craig S. Keener's The Spirit in Gospels and Acts: Divine Purity and Power (Hendrickson, 1997). This has to be Kenner at his best regarding the background views of the Spirit in the Gospels and Acts - he focuses primarily on Jewish sources for a background context of the Spirit and how the early church viewed the work of the Spirit in the life of the believer and the church.

Craig S. Keener's Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today (Baker Academic, 2001). This would be good for anyone who wants to know more about who the Holy Spirit is and how he works in our lives. It is less scholarly (more pastoral) and geared to the average Christian interested in learning more about the Holy Spirit. I am not even sure this would be an expressly Pentecostal book but good for all Christians.

Craig S. Keener's 3 Crucial Questions About the Holy Spirit (Baker, 1996). This deals with three specific questions: What is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? How important are Spiritual Gifts today? How can we recognize the Spirit. Some of this may be repeated in Gift and Giver but I think it might be worth looking into.

David Lim's Spiritual Gifts: A Fresh Look (Gospel Publishing House, 1998). This is a more traditional AG view of Spiritual Gifts and their role in church. Still interesting nonetheless. It should absolutely be coupled with Kenneth Berding's What Are Spiritual Gifts?: Rethinking the Conventional View (Kregel Publications, 2006). This work opens up the idea of Spiritual Ministries as opposed to "gifts".

Frank D. Macchia's Baptized in the Spirit: A Global Pentecostal Theology (Zondervan, 2006). This is a systematic theology of the Holy Spirit.

Richard Gaffin, et al, Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? 4 Views (Zondervan, 1996). Gives for view for and against miraculous gifts.

Jack S. Deere's Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 1996). This gives Deere's won account of his experience of the Holy Spirit in his life even while a professor at the infamous cessationist school Dallas Theological Seminary, form which he was promptly fired one it became known he received the Baptism of the Spirit.

Think I have enough books on the person and work of the Holy Spirit yet?