Frank D. Macchia is professor of Christian theology at Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, California, and associate director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor University, Wales (UK). His other books include the Two Horizons Commentary volume on Revelation and Justified in the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Triune God.
"Frank Macchia understands the outpouring of the life-giving Spirit
as the fulfillment of Christ's life and mission. And so he rightly
interprets the birth, passion, and resurrection of Christ from the
perspective of Pentecost. . . . I am grateful for this book."
-- Jürgen Moltmann
author of The Way of Jesus Christ and The Spirit of Life "In this
readable and delightful essay on Christology, Frank Macchia
contributes his own blossom to the flowering of Pentecostal
systematic theology in our time. Ecumenical and grounded in
Pentecost, this Christology is at once biblical and academic,
creative and traditional. Macchia's salutary critical dialogue with
Pannenberg and Barth only serves to deepen his analysis and extend
his own creative revisions."
-- Alan G. Padgett
Luther Seminary "A truly inspiring Christology by leading
Pentecostal theologian Frank Macchia, who argues that Pentecost is
the culminating event of Christ's identity and mission. Macchia
unfolds a Spirit-Christology that sheds new light on the saving and
ennobling work of Jesus Christ and on the creativity of the triune
God. This Christology provides rich nourishment for theological
thought and Christian faith."
-- Michael Welker
University of Heidelberg "Frank Macchia has long been at the
vanguard of Pentecostal theology as it has engaged the historic
Christian theological tradition. This Pentecostal Christology of
his reconfigures the entire theological landscape!"
-- Amos Yong
Fuller Theological Seminary "Frank Macchia's Jesus the Spirit
Baptizer offers a needed corrective to the sad fact of the Holy
Spirit's neglect by Christian theology. By depicting Pentecost, not
Easter, as the climax of the incarnation, Macchia presents a
Trinitarian reading of the Gospel narrative that not only
integrates the work of the Son and the Spirit but also offers a
robust eschatology full of hopeful anticipation."
-- J. Warren Smith
Duke Divinity School "A perpetual challenge within Christology and
pneumatology is the prominent and early claim made by the Baptist
in all four Gospels that Jesus was to baptize in the Spirit, yet
this language is not picked up again until the beginning of Acts.
How can we reconcile such prominence on the one hand and such
blatant silence on the other? The answer lies in deliberate,
extensive, and creative theological reflection that connects and
reconnects all that we know in suggestive and illuminating ways.
Few people can succeed at such a task. Frank Macchia not only can
but does so masterfully. This book is a true gem, showing that
Macchia is one of his generation's most important and capable
theologians."
-- Daniel Castelo
Seattle Pacific University "Jesus the Spirit Baptizer constitutes
an insightful contribution to the Christological and
pneumatological reflection by unfolding the intuition that Christ
is best seen in close relationship to the Spirit and from the
vantage point of Pentecost, and by offering a comprehensive reading
of the Christological moments through that lens."
-- Theological Studies "Educators of systematic or Pentecostal
theology must consider Macchia's vigorous Christology and
pneumatology; this work should be required reading for upper
division undergrad and master's students. However, beyond our
Pentecostal contexts, Macchia, ever the ecumenical theologian,
delivers the gift of a Pentecostal worldview. Pentecostals, at
their best, do not shortcut Christology for pneumatology. Instead,
Macchia's Pentecostal pneumatology provides a more dynamic
Christology; thus, it serves an ecumenical vision for unity and
common witness. Given Macchia's lifelong commitment to ecumenism, I
imagine no higher goal for Macchia than to see his work encourage
readers to experience Jesus the Spirit Baptizer living and active
among God's people and embodying his mission to a lost and dying
world."
-- Pneuma "Macchia's book opens for us new avenues to understand
the gift of the life-giving Spirit as the fulfillment of Christ's
life and mission. His interpretation of the birth, ministry,
Passion, death, and resurrection of Christ through the lens of
Pentecost lends and uncommon dimension to our methodologies in
Christology. This highly readable and ecumenically sensitive book
is a great gift to student and scholars of theology, especially
those engaged in Christology and pneumatology."
-- Mission Today "The biblical scope and theological learning of
Macchia's work is indeed impressive."
-- Thomas Weinandy in the International Journal of Systematic
Theology
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