Abstract
This essay explores recent discussion – primarily with Volker Rabens’s The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul – of how exactly the Holy Spirit effects ethical transformation in the new covenant’s members. The essay is broken into three parts. Part one will briefly establish the prophesied new covenant centre of the NT. From this part two will consider the biblical anthropological matrix for ethical transformation in the domain of the believer’s heart. Finally, part three will take up the NT writers’ account of the Spirit poured into the believer’s heart with an eye to the specific means the Spirit uses on the heart to effect ethical transformation. The Spirit as the minister of the grace of God in new relationship, as opposed to a sacramentally infused substance, will confirm Rabens’s thesis as a good expression of Paul’s teaching, and also the teaching of the greater corpus of Scripture.
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