Go-Between God

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.

• Foreword viiPreface xvIntroduction xviiPART ONE • FACTS OF LIFE1 ANNUNCIATION 3The Intermediary Spirit and the Impulse of the Mission2 CONCEPTION 27The Creator Spirit and the Range of the Mission3 GESTATION 45The Power of the Spirit and the Violence of the Mission4 LABOUR 69The Spirit of Prophecy and the Historical Perspective of the Mission5 BIRTH 90The Spirit in Jesus and the Focus of the Mission6 BREATH 114The Indwelling Spirit and the Humiliation of the MissionPART TWO • STYLE OF LIFE7 GROWING 143The Evangelical Spirit and the Structures of Mission8 EXPLORING 165The Freedom of the Spirit and the Search for a New Ethic9 MEETING 194The Universal Spirit and the Meeting of Faiths10 PLAYING 215Pentecostalism and the Supernatural Dimension in Secular Age11 LOVING 242Prayer in the Spirit and the Silence of MissionNotes 266