The Resurgence of Spirit Christology

I first engaged the issue of christology during the 1970's while completing a dissertation on baptism. This prompted a lecture on the subject at Fuller Theological Seminary, a paper at the 1980 Society For Pentecostal Studies, an article in Heyrhrop Journal originally read as a paper to the American Academy of Religion in 1983 and, finally, a section in Spirit. Baptism: A Pentecostal A1ternutive.I The confrontation with christology was inevitable because of a pneuma-baptocentric formulation of Christian initiation where it is baldly said Christ is received at conversion and then the full personality of the Spirit is linked to baptism.