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A Constructive Trinitarian Theology of the First Article for the Religiously Pluralistic and Secular World Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Even laypersons, such as systematic theologians, who are not trained in law enforcement are familiar enough with crime investigation to know that the detective works circles around a few simple questions such as: Who committed the crime? What happened? How was the crime executed? Why did the criminal do what he or she did? In the first part of my essay, as a way of introducing the nature, “method,”
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Jesus the Spirit Baptizer: Toward a Pentecostal Christology Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Frank D. Macchia
In pouring forth the Spirit, Christ fulfills his mission to baptize others “in the Holy Spirit.” In so doing, he also opens himself to history, to his ecclesial and cosmic identity, in a new way, but in a way that is faithful to that which has gone before. Though fundamentally defined by his own sojourn in the Spirit to Pentecost as the divine Son of his Father in flesh, victorious over sin and death
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A Pentecostal Third Article Theology Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Steven M. Studebaker
This article proposes a pentecostal theology of the Holy Spirit. It argues that the Holy Spirit plays a central role in the narrative of redemption from creation to eschaton. Indeed, the telos of redemption is the outpouring of the Spirit of Pentecost that culminates in the eschatological promise of the new creation. This eschatological work of the Holy Spirit indicates the Spirit’s immanent identity
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The Spirit of Pentecost and the Future of Creation: Reflection on Steven M. Studebaker’s Pneumatological Proposal from an Eastern European Perspective Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Daniela C. Augustine
Studebaker’s overarching thesis is that “the Holy Spirit is the telos of redemption and, therefore, the divine person that consummates the fellowship of the triune God.” This thesis reflects not only the trajectory of current pentecostal scholarship, but the very core of Eastern Orthodox pneumatology that has primed the theological imagination and sacramental life of many Eastern European Pentecostals
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Who’s on First?: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s First Article Theology Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Christopher A. Stephenson
The terms first, second, and third article theology are relatively new, and theologians use them equivocally. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s first article theology focuses on the doctrines of God, revelation, and creation in and of themselves, that is, on theological topics broadly associated with the first article of the Creed. Another way to approach first article theology is to make a theology of the Father
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Witnessing to Jesus the Spirit Baptizer: A Response to Macchia’s Pentecostal Christology Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Florian M.P. Simatupang
This response proceeds in two parts. It begins by conversing with the broad-strokes sketch Frank Macchia offers in his article in this issue and his christological thoughts from his other, more extensive work. This is followed by an articulation of the author’s pentecostal Christology to offer a teleological assist to fill in some of the gaps in Macchia’s approach. The telos of Christology is to witness
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All Christians Can Hear God’s Voice Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-10-26 David Dwi Chrisna
YWAM is one of the many actors that have played an important role in the “pentecostalization” of global Christianity. Rooted in a classical pentecostal denomination and committed to mission in the spirit of the ecumenical movement, YWAM has been a catalyst for the process of translating, introducing, and disseminating the pentecostal distinctives initially isolated only in classical pentecostal denominations
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The Holy Spirit in the Household Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Sarbeswar Sahoo
Why are the Bhil tribals increasingly converting to Pentecostalism in India? Drawing on more than a decade of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork among the Bhils in southern Rajasthan, this article argues that the Pentecostals have approached conversion not as “change of religion” (dharma parivartan) but as “holistic transformation of life” (jeevan parivartan). In a context in which the state has been
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Inner Healing, Embodied Emotions, and the Therapeutic Culture of Christian Healing Ministries Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Peter Althouse
This address explores the relationship between pentecostal experience and pentecostal rituals and practices. Specifically, it will investigate this relationship through an analysis of healing and deliverance. This exploration takes place in three parts. First, it offers a description of the role, practices, and experience(s) of healing in Christian Healing Ministries. Second, it provides a theoretical
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Murmurs and Miracles Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Isaiah C. Padgett
This article explores how early Pentecostals read, interpreted, and utilized the character of Miriam within the Old Testament. Despite the prominent focus upon masculine Old Testament figures within pentecostal history, the reception of feminine figures within Pentecostalism is less clear. As such, this article seeks to uncover how Miriam the prophetess was presented and interpreted within early pentecostal
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“Stony Optic Defies” Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Jonathan Chism
Despite being healed from smallpox in 1903, William Seymour incurred scarring in his left eye and lived with monocular vision. He wore a glass eye that somewhat concealed his disability, and few photographs reveal his deformity. Pentecostal scholars have reflected deeply on Seymour’s race and class but have devoted little discussion to his disability. Seymour himself seemingly attributed his blindness
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The Beginnings of African American Pentecostalism Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-06-15 J. Gordon Melton
African American response to the pentecostal movement began soon after the introduction of the Apostolic Faith to Texas, where the movement experienced its first noticeable success. It spread within the Black community of Houston following the baptism of the Holy Spirit by Holiness minister Lucy Farrow. One of its number, William Seymour, introduced it to Southern California. An early congregation
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Bibliometrics and Pentecostal Scholarship Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Daniel W. Eller, Daniel D. Isgrigg
The Society for Pentecostal Studies celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2020. To commemorate the half-century mark, the editors of Pneuma assembled a special issue that included a history of the Society. While the fiftieth-anniversary commemorative volume captured the growth of the Society, absent was a consideration of the impact of Pneuma. As such, the fifty-year anniversary deserves a more quantifiable
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Exploring Experience Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Truls Åkerlund, John Daniel Andersen
This article contributes to pentecostal research by arguing that applied phenomenology can enhance the understanding of pentecostal experience and enrich work with systematic theology by increasing the amount of relevant data. Phenomenology is especially appropriate for pentecostal theology and research due to the shared emphasis on embodiment, importance of experiences, consistency of appearances
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Moral Rapport in Communion of the Spirit Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Paul K. Moser
The communion (koinōnia) of the Spirit calls for moral rapport with God, based on the reception of divine righteousness in the “fruit of the Spirit” among humans. This article explains the centrality of such moral rapport to the koinōnia of the Spirit, on the basis of insights from the book of Genesis, some of the Hebrew psalmists, and the apostle Paul. It gives special attention to Paul’s perspective
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Toward a Holistic Pentecost Pneuma Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Selina Stone
Pentecostalism is often celebrated as a holistic or embodied spirituality that overcomes the dualisms inherent to modernity, and that juxtapose the body and the spiritual. However, historically and in the present, pentecostals struggle to address the problems of inequity and oppression that impact certain bodies in the church and the world. This article explores this tension in Classical Pentecostalism
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A Case for Pentecostal Interculturality Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Lora Angeline Embudo Timenia
Interculturality has been promulgated by many scholars from the 1970s onward due to world transformations such as postcolonialism, migration, and globalization. In the context of Southeast Asia, one of the ways this becomes obvious is through South-to-South mission, in which a sense of mutuality becomes the basis for intercultural partnerships. Such is the case for the Filipino Assemblies of God mission
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Dis/parity: Blackness and the (Im)possibility of a Pentecostal (Political) Theology Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Marlon Millner
American pentecostal political theology is not marked by a fivefold gospel, as key theologians contend, but is best understood as the justification of the color line. That term, popularized by W.E.B. Du Bois, is a theological-political term, and was invoked at Azusa Street. The color line is a spatial and racial order that is both politically and theologically inaugurated and upheld. Political theology
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Engaging Racial Equity Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 David D. Daniels
This article explores the contours of an emerging pentecostal political theology of race that is framed by a quest for racial equity and racial justice that is reflected in early Black-led pentecostal interracialism, expressed in the Racial Reconciliation Manifesto, guardrailed by a theology of just-power, and informed potentially by equity as a hermeneutic to reread Scripture. A pentecostal political
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Latinos Shifting Republican? Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Gastón Espinosa
This article utilizes the Latino Religions and Politics National Survey (n = 1,292) to provide a preliminary investigation into Latino religious and political identity and voting results in the 2020 Election. It provides important new data on the Latino vote lean by religion (Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Catholic Charismatic), with special attention to the critical role that religion
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“Make Azusa Great Again” Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Jacqueline N. Grey
This article explores how some of the historiography of the Azusa Street Mission reflects the rhetoric of American exceptionalism. It first explores American exceptionalism as well as the development of the Azusa Street Mission in the context of global Pentecostalism. Second, some accounts of the Azusa revival are examined to observe the language of exceptionalism in the retelling of this event. Yet
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Pentecostalism as a Product of the Enlightenment Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 John C. Poirier
Nothing has been more foundational within pentecostal scholarship than the idea that Pentecostalism is necessarily opposed to “modernism” and/or “Enlightenment thinking.” And yet an unmistakably “modernist” strain of thought lies behind several central pentecostal commitments. This article traces Pentecostalism’s debt to the English Enlightenment’s encounter with the miraculous and to John Wesley’s
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The Promise of American Pentecostal Political Theologies Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Steven M. Studebaker
Political strife and cultural upheaval characterize public life in the United States today. When did it start? Not with Donald J. Trump’s election, but he certainly amplified and accelerated these trends. Do the Spirit of Pentecost and communities of people filled with and empowered by the Holy Spirit offer a way forward beyond the acrimony, hatreds, bigotries, and political polarities? The articles
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“Rescued Women” Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Daniel D. Isgrigg
This article traces the history of early pentecostal responses to sex trafficking and the related issue of prostitution. It documents the stories of Pentecostal Rescue missions recorded in pentecostal papers such as The Bridegroom’s Messenger, Apostolic Faith, Weekly Evangel, and the Pentecostal Holiness Advocate. This study explores pentecostal views of society and culture as well as rhetoric about
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Studying Digital Pentecostalism Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Mark J. Cartledge
One of the most important developments in recent history has been the invention of the internet and this has led to many academic disciplines developing digital research competence. However, there has been limited practical-theological research completed in the area of digitally mediated Pentecostalism. Therefore, this article addresses this important area, as conceived within the discipline of practical
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Fifty Years of Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue, 1972–2022 Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Cecil M. Robeck
This article offers a sweeping view of the first fifty years of the International Roman Catholic–Pentecostal Dialogue, from the perspective of an historian who has participated in this ongoing discussion for the past thirty-seven years. While the first two rounds of dialogue were especially difficult because of the political disputes between the then Assemblies of God General Superintendent, Thomas
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Just Another Physical Wreck on the Shores of Time Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Lisa Millen
This article investigates the various ways in which Pentecostals read and interpreted the narrative of the woman whom Jesus healed of an “issue of blood.” It explores the manner in which she and her experience are described and explained by Pentecostals in articles and sermons from the beginning of the movement to the present day. The article attempts to survey and analyze the different interpretations
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Practical Theology in a Pentecostal Key Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Jeremy Bone
This article proposes that the empirical perspective in the discipline of practical theology, as championed by Mark J. Cartledge, offers dialogical potential between localized pentecostal praxis and academically situated theology. This essay first situates Cartledge’s scholarship in the broader field of practical theology, with attention given to the contributions of the empirical perspective. It then
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An Unconventional God: The Spirit According to Jesus, by Jack Levison Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Mark Anderson
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The Spirit Shaped Church: A Spirit Ecclesiology in India, by Swarup Bar Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Allan Varghese Meloottu
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Sanctifying Interpretation: Vocation, Holiness, and Scripture, by Chris E. W. Green Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Monte Lee Rice
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Add Thou to It: The Selected Works of Robert Clarence Lawson, by Alexander C. Stewart (ed.) Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Ida Jones
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Lived Religion, Pentecostalism, and Social Activism in Authoritarian Chile, by Joseph Florez Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Anthony Giannaio
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After the Revival: Pentecostalism and the Making of a Canadian Church, by Michael Wilkinson and Linda Ambrose Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Geoffrey Butler
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Christ-Centered: The Evangelical Nature of Pentecostal Theology, by Robert P. Menzies Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Mark L. Strauss
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The Myth of Disenchantment; Magic, Modernity and the Birth of the Human Sciences, by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Marlon Millner
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The Prosperity Gospel in Africa: An African Pentecostal Hermeneutical Consideration, by Marius Nel Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Hiyab Hiruy
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Bishop Charles H. Mason in the Age of Jim Crow: The Struggle for Religious and Moral Uplift, by Elton H. Weaver III Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Jonathan Chism
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Pentecostal Spirituality as Theory and Praxis of Theology Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Nimi Wariboko,L. William Oliverio
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Four Early Christian Documents from Egypt Regarding Prayer to the Holy Spirit Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Boris Paschke
Thus far, the topic of early Christian prayer to the Holy Spirit has not received much scholarly attention. Only a few studies are available that present relevant primary sources (Tertullian, De baptismo 8; Origen, Hom. Lev. I 1; Acts of John 94 and 96; Acts of Thomas 27 and 50; Phōs Hilaron). This article discusses four documents from ancient Egypt that are absent from these studies. The apocryphal
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Oral Roberts: A Religious Innovator Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Robert D. McBain
The religious economy paradigm sees churches as firms, pastors as marketers, and church members as consumers whose tastes shape the goods and services the ministers offer. Religious innovators operate within this framework as suppliers who thrive because they react quickly to changing cultural and social conditions. This article argues that Oral Roberts was a religious innovator who operated and thrived
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Politics and Pentecostalism in Australia: Prime Minister Morrison as the “Miracle Man” Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Denise A. Austin, David Perry, Stephen Fogarty
Pentecostalism and politics are, for better or worse, no strangers. In 2018, Scott Morrison became the first pentecostal prime minister in the history of Australia and, possibly, in the English-speaking world. He then led the Liberal Party to a resounding election victory in 2019. As a result, Morrison was dubbed the “Miracle Man” after his acceptance speech referred to divine intervention in the electoral
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Possession Amnesia: Patterns of Experience, Evidence for Spirits Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Clint Tibbs
The occurrence of possession amnesia—memory loss subsequent to the cessation of possession by a spirit—is chronicled in Akkadian, Greek, early Jewish, and Christian literature. Anthropologists have collected data that witness to the same phenomenon occurring in indigenous cultures. Anthropologists have argued that patterns of experience with certain inexplicable phenomena, such as with spirits, may
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Prophetism in African Christianity and Biblical Traditions: A Study of Selected Works of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu and the Gospel of Luke Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh
This article examines the portrayal of prophetism in the works of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu and compares it with the depiction of prophetism by the author of the gospel of Luke. Prophetism is a recurrent religious phenomenon in the Christian faith, particularly in Africa. Many scholars have undertaken seminal works on the subject, depending on the popularity and effect of the experience on contemporary
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“Two-Stage” Spirit Reception in the Writings of Paul: Building on the Work of Robert Menzies Pneuma Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Daniel J. Baker
In his 2017 article, “Subsequence in the Pauline Epistles,” Robert Menzies asked, “Is the pentecostal doctrine of subsequence compatible with Paul’s pneumatological perspective?” His answer was yes, based especially on 2 Timothy 1:6–7 and Romans 1:11. However, he notes, “most scholars” reject this position. Building on 1 Corinthians 12:13 and a perceived absence of Spirit reception in Paul’s epistles
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The Spirit in 1–2 Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Esther: Transforming the Spirit Traditions for New Contexts Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Emma M. Austin, Jacqueline Grey
This article explores the ruach in the postexilic books of 1–2 Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Esther. First, it examines the six clear (and one ambiguous) references to the Holy Spirit in these texts. It notes the consistent use of earlier ruach traditions that have been adapted by the biblical writers in the Second Temple period to emphasize the continued presence of God’s Spirit with his covenant
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The Spirit in 1 and 2 Thessalonians: The Function of the Spirit in Paul’s Earliest Letters Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Roji Thomas George
In the Thessalonian correspondence, Paul, through his occasional yet repeated references to the Spirit’s role in the life of a believer, individual and corporate, teaches that the Spirit is active in a person’s life from the time faith in the gospel is kindled in them. The Spirit regenerates a sinner through deep conviction and power and continues to sanctify a person to live in holiness according
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The Spirit in 1 Corinthians: Spiritual Formation and Giftedness Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 J. Ayodeji Adewuya
The Holy Spirit plays a significant role in 1 Corinthians. Paul discusses the role of the Spirit in personal lives, community formation, and worship, among other aspects of Christian living. Paul’s teaching about the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians cannot be understood apart from the situation of the congregation in Corinth. It is not possible to address every issue related to the Holy Spirit in an essay
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The Spirit in 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and Jude: Transformation and Transcendence Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Rebecca Skaggs
The Holy Spirit is central to the message of all three of these epistles. Although 1 Peter includes more details, all three portray the Spirit as the means by which the believer is transformed in God and enabled to participate in the suffering and death of Christ. Finally, the Spirit conveys the blessing/reward for suffering. For the author of 2 Peter (1:20–21), the Spirit conveys prophecy from God
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The Spirit in 2 Corinthians: A Glorious Covenant and Consummation Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Jacob Cherian, Joe Thomas
The Holy Spirit plays an indispensable role in Paul’s configuration of the Christian life. This article briefly examines the significance of the Spirit in Paul’s overall argument in 2 Corinthians. The eleven Spirit texts are explored under three main themes: the Spirit as a seal and deposit; the Spirit and the New Covenant; and the Spirit and the Trinity.
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The Spirit in Colossians and Philemon: Love, Understanding, and Unity Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Holly Beers
Though direct reference to the Spirit is relatively rare in Colossians and Philemon, the functions of the eschatological Spirit are in line with typical Pauline emphases. The Spirit is the one who enables both individuals and the community to love, to understand (and sing) so as to live in line with God’s purposes, and to be unified.
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The Spirit in Daniel and The Twelve: When Divine Winds Blow Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Rick Wadholm
The Spirit moves through the books of Daniel and The Twelve (Minor Prophets). In this article, the relevant texts of these books are examined in brief and summarized with regard to the Spirit’s person and work by means of engagement with those passages making use of רוח. These summaries that follow the canonical order of the Old Testament are then pointedly summarized by a brief constructive theology
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The Spirit in Ephesians and Philippians: Together by Divine Enabling Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Daniel K. Darko
This study aims to shed light on the richness, essence, and range of πνεῦμα lexemes in Paul’s correspondence to Christ followers in Western Asia Minor and Roman Philippi. I will endeavor to show the import of each occurrence of πνεῦμα or its cognate in these letters and provide a synthesis of the findings at the conclusion. It will become apparent that Paul does not have one consistent referent for
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The Spirit in Ezekiel: The Presence of Yahweh with His People Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Alicia R. Jackson
In the movement from Judah to Babylon during the exile and from judgment to hope throughout the book of Ezekiel, the Spirit of Yahweh participates in divine actions, prophetic speech, revelatory and visionary experiences, and future restoration—revealing the Spirit as the purifying, personal, and permanent presence of Yahweh among his people. First, the Spirit reveals the glory of Yahweh and then separates
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The Spirit in Galatians: The Holy Spirit in Paul’s Soteriological Arguments Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Roji Thomas George
Arguing against the Galatian agitators, Paul contents that the Gentiles are saved by faith and are incorporated into the community of God not by the works of the law. He begins his argument by pointing out that the reception of the indwelling Spirit by faith is the undeniable evidence in their salvation experience. First, the reception of the Spirit proves the change of one’s status before God. The
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The Spirit in Hebrews: Guiding the Community to Further Truth Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Cynthia Long Westfall
There are surprisingly few references to the Holy Spirit in the letter to the Hebrews, though there are more than some may recognize. The author of Hebrews believes that the recipients of his letter/sermon should be fully grounded in their communal life in the Spirit, but he is most interested in how the Holy Spirit is exhorting and guiding the community to further truth during their critical time
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The Spirit in Isaiah: God’s Might and His Charismatic Presence on the Elect Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Wonsuk Ma
This study employs an “elect” concept to frame the diverse nature and work of the Spirit in Isaiah. God created humans in his image and enlivened them by his to “rule over” the whole of creation. This makes God’s elect a “charismatic” figure: chosen or called to be his possession and to stand between God and the recipients of the elect’s ministry, and to perform God-given tasks with his enduring and
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The Spirit in John’s Apocalypse: Vision, Prophecy, Discernment Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Melissa Archer, Robby Waddell
Despite the lack of unambiguous references to the Spirit, scholars have argued vigorously both for and against identifying some (though not all) of the occurrences of πνεῦμα as references to the Holy Spirit. In the last couple of decades, a renewed interest in the Apocalypse—especially by pentecostal biblical scholars—has led to a fresh discovery of its pneumatology, among other insights. This essay
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The Spirit in Luke-Acts: Empowering Prophetic Witness Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Robert P. Menzies
A careful reading of Luke-Acts reveals that there was development in the early church’s understanding of the Spirit’s work. Luke’s pneumatology is different from that of Paul (and John). Unlike Paul, who frequently speaks of the soteriological dimension of the Spirit’s work, Luke consistently portrays the Spirit as a prophetic gift, principally directed toward others and understood as the source of
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The Spirit in Mark: Power and Suffering Pneuma Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Blaine Charette
There are fewer direct references to the Holy Spirit in Mark’s Gospel than in the other gospels. For this reason, there has been much less discussion of the significance of the Spirit to Mark’s theology in comparison with other gospels, particularly Luke and John. Yet in the case of Mark it is not helpful or appropriate to assess the importance of this subject based merely on the frequency of use of