The Giving Gift
The Holy Spirit in Person
Published on 2. November 2004
218 pages
978-1-7252-1272-5 (ISBN)
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This major study breaks new ground, going beyond the issue most discussed in charismatic circles (the working of the Holy Spirit) to tackle questions relating to the person of the Holy Spirit and his relationship to the Father and the Son, as well as his relationship to people.
Tom Smail's theological horizons are impressively broad, embracing historical orthodoxy and including the Roman and Eastern Orthodox traditions, as well as contemporary theology. He combines full theological literacy with personal insight into renewal, thus illuminating a contemporary experience of the Holy Spirit with the sovereignty of God in salvation.
In The Giving Gift he offers a positive understanding of Christian tradition in its relation to Scripture and a new approach to prayer as a gift that God makes by his Spirit. He also provides an attempt to understand the work of the Spirit in the church throughout the ages and in different traditions, emphasising in particular the role and contribution of the Eastern Orthodox churches.
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Tom Smail was born in Glasgow, studied Philosophy and Theology in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Basel, was ordained into the Church of Scotland ministry and served in parishes in West Calder, Irvine and Wishaw. He became involved in the early charismatic renewal in the mid sixties and after a four year ministry in Northern Ireland amidst the troubles of the early seventies, he joined and then succeeded Michael Harper in the leadership of the Fountain Trust, which was then engaged in promoting charismatic renewal in the mainline churches in Britain and beyond. In 1979 he became vice-Principal and Lecturer in Doctrine at St John's College Nottingham and was ordained into the Anglican ministry. In 1985 he became Team Rector of All Saints Sanderstead in Croydon from which he retired in 1994.
Tom is the author of seven books, has been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow of King's College, London and for the first half of the year 2000 he was Visiting Professor of Preaching at Fuller Theological Seminary in California. Tom and his wife Truda have been married for over 55 years and have two children and three grandchildren. The whole family is now London based. His books are: Reflected Glory, The Forgotten Father, The Giving Gift, Windows on the Cross, Once and For All, Like Father, Like Son and Praying with Paul.
Tom is the author of seven books, has been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow of King's College, London and for the first half of the year 2000 he was Visiting Professor of Preaching at Fuller Theological Seminary in California. Tom and his wife Truda have been married for over 55 years and have two children and three grandchildren. The whole family is now London based. His books are: Reflected Glory, The Forgotten Father, The Giving Gift, Windows on the Cross, Once and For All, Like Father, Like Son and Praying with Paul.
