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We ended the last chapter with a brief consideration of the meaning of spirit in the New Testament, and its significance for an understanding of the true nature of man. Since this is a key concept, we need to go deeper and consider further its theological implications.
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9 Man as ‘Spirit’ — Pneuma
O. C. Quick, Doctrines of the Creed (London: Nisbet; New York: Scribner, 1938) p. 275.
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Sickness unto Death, tr. Walter Lowrie (New York: Doubleday, 1954) pp. 146f.
John Macquarrie, Paths in Spirituality ( London: S.C.M. Press, 1972 ) p. 45.
Martin Buber, Between Man and Man, tr. R. G. Smith (London: Kegan Paul, 1947) p. 144. Buber, born and bred a Jew, has had a great influence on Christian thought, as well as in many other spheres including that of philosophy, psychology and education.
William Ernest Hocking, The Meaning of God in Human Experience ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963 ) p. 299.
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, tr. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962 ) p. 117.
Quoted by John Baillie, Our Knowledge of God ( London: OUP, 1939 ) p. 299.
Kenneth Cragg, Christianity in World Perspective ( London: Lutterworth Press, 1969 ) P. 150.
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de Silva, L.A. (1979). Man as ‘Spirit’ — Pneuma. In: The Problem of the Self in Buddhism and Christianity. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03729-2_9
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