The Holy Spirit and the Reformation Legacy

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      Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

      Names: Cartledge, Mark J., editor. | Jumper, Mark A., editor.

      Title: The Holy Spirit and the Reformation Legacy / edited by Mark J.Cartledge and Mark A. Jumper.

      Description: Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: isbn 978-1-5326-9543-8 (paperback). | isbn 978-1-5326-9544-5 (hardcover). | isbn 978-1-5326-9545-2 (ebook).

      Subjects: LCSH: Holy Spirit—History of doctrines. | Reformation. | Luther, Martin, 1484–1546. | Calvin, John, 1509–1564. | Church history—16th century. | Theology.

      Classification: BT121.3 H65 2020 (print). | BT121.3 (ebook).

      Manufactured in the U.S.A. September 15, 2020

      To the faculty and students of Regent University School of Divinity

      Acknowledgments

      The editors would like to acknowledge the support given by Regent University for the conference on the theme of “The Holy Spirit and the Reformation Legacy,” held in the fall of 2017 with one hundred scholars attending. All the chapters in this volume were presented initially as conference papers. This conference was held under the auspices of the Center for Renewal Studies, directed at the time by Prof. Mark J. Cartledge. The main conference organizer was Dr. Mark A. Jumper. Last but not least, we wish to acknowledge the enthusiastic support of the conference by the Dean of the School of Divinity, Dr. Corné Bekker.

      Contributors

      Lance Bacon is an ordained bishop in the Church of God who has served sixteen years as a senior pastor. He currently serves in that role at Greater Discipleship Center in Hampton, Virginia. He earned his Master of Divinity from the Regent University School of Divinity in 2016 and is in the PhD dissertation phase at that school. He delights in his role as an adjunct professor of Christian Ministry, Christian Ethics, and Christian History/Thought at the Regent University College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Scariest Word in the Bible.

      David M. Barbee, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Christian Thought at Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay, Ohio. His academic research focuses primarily on late medieval scholasticism and early modern Protestantism. He earned his PhD in Religious Studies with a focus in the History of Christianity from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

      Mark J. Cartledge, PhD, FRSA, is Principal of the London School of Theology and was previously Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Center for Renewal Studies at Regent University School of Divinity. He is a priest in the Church of England and a practical theologian who also works in the field of constructive theology. His current research interest lies at the intersection of pneumatology, ecclesiology, and public life. He has studied Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity for many years.

      Mara Lief Crabtree, DMin, is an Associate Professor at the Regent University School of Divinity, Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she teaches in the areas of Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Formation. She completed her doctoral studies immersion experience in Poland, visiting and studying the Holocaust areas of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, and others. Mara holds ordination with the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches. She served for over twenty years as a Chaplain for the International Order of St. Luke the Physician (OSL), an ecumenical religious order. She currently serves as Region 2 Representative for OSL Chapters in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

      Jan Drayer became a believer in August of 1984 in Taos, New Mexico, and married Leslie Alexander in December that year. He earned the BS in Bible, focusing on World Missions, in 1991 from the University of Valley Forge in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He and his family then moved to the Philippines, where they served as missionaries for sixteen years. They returned to the U.S., where in 2008 Jan became the senior pastor of Community Gospel Church in Pasadena, Maryland, affiliated with Elim Fellowship (with which he holds ordination). He earned the MTS from the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 2013. He is an MPhil/PhD student at the London School of Theology under the supervision of Dr. Graham McFarlane. His research focus is toward a pneumatological rendering of James Davison Hunter’s “faithful presence” model.

      Barbara Elkjer is an Assemblies of God minister who served for eight years at First Assembly of God in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is a PhD candidate at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, writing on the role of prophecy in the eschatological mission of the Church, and teaching hermeneutics and theology in a local Assemblies of God School of Ministry. She and her husband have four grown children and five grandchildren—and counting!

      Daniel Gilbert, PhD, a Presbyterian minister, has ministered the Spirit-empowered Gospel for over thirty-five years in church, para-church, mission, and higher education venues. He is Director of Master’s Programs and an Assistant Professor at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is the founder of EmPowered Living International Ministries, a teaching and humanitarian ministry, and the founder and President of ELIM Theological Institute, a Bible school in Kenya training village pastors in sound theology and humanitarian action, accomplished in the power of the Holy Spirit. He is the author of The Big 5: Discovering the Five Foundations Every Christian Should Know, with a foreword by Dr. M. G. “Pat” Robertson. He earned the PhD in Theology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland; the MDiv from the Regent University School of Divinity; and the BS in Business Administration from Mars Hill University in North Carolina. He and his wife, Mary Beth, share a happy marriage of thirty-four years and a lovely daughter, Maria.

      James M. Henderson, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Ministry at Regent University’s College of Arts and Sciences in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is also an Ordained Minister with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. His work focuses on justification, divine election, and the work of the Holy Spirit in the world.

      Mark A. Jumper, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Director of Chaplaincy and Military Affairs at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia. A third-generation Presbyterian minister, he is ordained by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which he has served as Endorser for Chaplains and as moderator of two presbyteries. He is a retired Navy chaplain whose service included the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Coast Guard at sea, on land, and in the air, in peace, war, and storm. He earned the PhD in Humanities from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island; the MDiv from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia; and the BA in History from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a contributor to several edited collections. He and his wife, Ginger, are parents of seven children.

      Don Kammer is a Theology PhD student at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, concentrating in the History of Global Christianity. He is a retired United States Army chaplain and combat veteran. He is endorsed by the Assemblies of