Books by Aaron T. Smith

Reflecting the Third Article of the Nicene Creed, The Lord, The Giver of Life describes God and creation according to the redeeming work of the Holy Spirit. Aaron T. Smith shows that it is not immateriality and materiality, which define "God" and "world," but reflexive capacity for otherness realized in covenantal history.

Toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a theology of the third-article and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear. Many interpreters took that to indicate not only a change in Barths perception of Schleiermacher but also as a self-referential critique. The author investigates this claim and argues for a Barthian pneumatologya doctrine of the Holy Spirit grounded in the scriptural witness and connected to Barths vital Christological and dialectical theology.