The Go-Between God: New edition

by John V. Taylor, Jonny Baker (Foreword by)

Overview

John Taylor’s most famous book is a reminder that the Holy Spirit urges us toward a communal humanity. Taylor’s is a message especially pertinent in an age of crushing multinational capitalism and a rising tide of individual greed and fear of the Other. 


Based on his Cadbury lectures delivered in 1967, The Go-Between God is now considered one of the most important works ever written on the Holy Spirit and mission. This edition contains a new foreword by Jonny Baker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780334060147
Publisher:	Hymns Ancient & Modern
Publication date:	01/30/2021
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Right Reverend John Vernon Taylor was an English bishop and theologian who was the Bishop of Winchester from 1974 to 1984. Taylor was one of the most gifted and widely admired churchmen of his time; in 1975 he became the first priest to be consecrated directly to the See of Winchester since the Middle Ages. Taylor also wrote several books, two of which, The Primal Vision (1963), an evaluation of the central features of African religion, and The Go-Between God (1972), an interpretation of the work of the Holy Spirit, became classics.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii Preface xv Introduction xvii PART ONE • FACTS OF LIFE 1 ANNUNCIATION 3 The Intermediary Spirit and the Impulse of the Mission 2 CONCEPTION 27 The Creator Spirit and the Range of the Mission 3 GESTATION 45 The Power of the Spirit and the Violence of the Mission 4 LABOUR 69 The Spirit of Prophecy and the Historical Perspective of the Mission 5 BIRTH 90 The Spirit in Jesus and the Focus of the Mission 6 BREATH 114 The Indwelling Spirit and the Humiliation of the Mission PART TWO • STYLE OF LIFE 7 GROWING 143 The Evangelical Spirit and the Structures of Mission 8 EXPLORING 165 The Freedom of the Spirit and the Search for a New Ethic 9 MEETING 194 The Universal Spirit and the Meeting of Faiths 10 PLAYING 215 Pentecostalism and the Supernatural Dimension in Secular Age 11 LOVING 242 Prayer in the Spirit and the Silence of Mission Notes 266