Encountering the Holy Spirit (with Fred Sanders)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Who is the Holy Spirit? How does the Holy Spirit work in our lives? What are some common misconceptions about the Holy Spirit and what are some vital truths to know to live in the power of the Spirit? Sean and Scott speak with fellow Biola professor Fred Sanders about these questions and his new book The Holy Spirit: An Introduction.Fred Sanders (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is a professor of theology at the Torrey Honors College at Biola University. Sanders is the author of multiple book...

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0:00.0	Who is the Holy Spirit? What are some of the most common misconceptions about the Holy
0:07.2	Spirit and how do we live in the power of the Spirit? Our guest today, Dr. Fred Sanders, is a part of the Tori Honors College here at
0:15.6	Bile University, written a great new accessible and unique book where you get into, simply
0:20.8	called The Holy Spirit and Introduction.
0:24.0	Fred, it's good to have you on the show.
0:25.4	It's good to be here.
0:26.6	Well, I read through your book, and there's so many angles
0:28.8	that we could approach it.
0:29.9	But one of the things that really jumped out to me
0:32.0	are these bizarre depictions of the things that really jumped out to me are these bizarre depictions of the Holy Spirit
0:35.5	in art and literature.
0:37.7	So in some ways to better understand
0:39.9	who the Holy Spirit is, we might unpack what they get right and what they get wrong.
0:45.8	Now one of the most popular ones over the past few years is in the novel which was put into
0:50.7	a film called The Shack, which the Holy Spirit is depicted as a young
0:55.6	Asian woman named Surayu. I hope I said that correctly. What do you make of this depiction?
1:00.6	What did it get right and what did it get wrong?
1:02.1	Yeah, the depiction of the Holy
1:04.6	Spirit in the shack is like so many of these others you can see down through
1:09.2	history. What's wrong about it is it's just it's arbitrary and random and all the details are
1:15.2	invented completely from scratch from the author's imagination. If you think I'm
1:20.1	going to make a movie and I need to cast the Holy Spirit, who do I cast?
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