McCall After the Spirit Review
Rogers aided me infinitely in comprehending the relations within the Godhead (inter-relationship, more accurately). The “resting” of the Spirit on the Son, agreed upon by both East & West, is an intriguing resolution to the filoque clause, which should be further pursued, perhaps in effect reuniting the East & West (?).
The Spirit as an independent character interacting with the Father and Son found much sympathy with me. I appreciate the elucidation of the Spirit’s presence upon and relation with the Son in the Resurrection (enabling reception), Annunciation (enabling body reception), Baptism (reception of spirit), Transfiguration (overshadowing by the Spirit), and the Ascension (empowerment by the Spirit).
I absolutely detested the application of the abominable definition of marriage which entails it to be nothing more than a method of arousing (i.e. “training”, 189) holiness. Rogers clearly explicates the danger (he does so in advocacy, mind you) of lax-ing moral codes by even an inch. Indeed, as Rogers well demonstrates, when we lax moral codes and absolute truths, indigent and ignorant people extend the lax-ing beyond its intended consequence, which in the end gives rise to moral relativism and relativistic truth! What a sham!