Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10053
Chammah J. Kaunda
This article employs Pentecostal mediation to engage the divergent views of Mbiti and Sanneh on the question of what translates between ‘the Gospel’ and ‘Christianity’. This approach is dialectical and dialogical imaginative Pentecostal third space inquiry which affirms paradoxical meaning makings. It is also embedded in the pneumatic principle as the power behind translatability. This approach demonstrates that both scholars were seeking to make sense of how Christianity can be said to have become a distinctive African religious reality in its practices, beliefs, and theological expressions. It concludes that the translatable Gospel is a Christian-producing Gospel and a Christian-producing Gospel is a translating and translatable Christianity. This frame of thinking makes sense, at least, within Pentecostal theological and missiological thought in which, ontologically, the Gospel and Christianity are already translated.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10058
Andreas-Christian Heidel
The Letter to the Hebrews has long been overlooked in discussions regarding New Testament pneumatology or even considered ‘inferior’ compared to other New Testament traditions. However, this is a mistake, as the unknown author of this letter demonstrates a remarkable awareness of pneumatology, which plays a key role in the transmission of early Christian traditions and significantly shapes the formation of the New Testament canon. Hebrews presupposes the presence of the Spirit and explicitly associates it with the revelation of God throughout history. Furthermore, the author identifies his own theological and literary work with the Spirit’s function of actualizing scripture, granting him a remarkable position among New Testament and early Christian authors.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10061
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Joshua Chigorimbo
Pentecostal eschatology differs from one sub-tradition of Pentecostalism to the other in a South African context. Sub-traditions such as classical Pentecostalism and the New Prophetic Churches (npc s) have been engaged in more than one form of eschatology. The differences are explored here to understand their implications for Pentecostal eschatology. The Pentecostal prophets in npc s do not exclusively focus on a futuristic eschatological approach as opposed to classical Pentecostalism. Pentecostal prophets in npc s embrace a realised eschatology of the kingdom in the here and the now. The challenge is that this approach presents some form of abuse in these churches. How do we address these abuses emanating from an overemphasised realised eschatology? How do we deal with the tensions between realised eschatology and futuristic eschatology? What could be the relevant eschatology that balances both extremes of a futuristic eschatology and realised eschatology? These questions are addressed here through an inaugurated eschatology.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10059
Sam Neulsaem Ha
While atonement theology has recently been taking a trinitarian turn, Calvin scholars have not caught on to this newly developing trend. Regrettably, most of their attention has been given to Calvin’s view on the extent of the atonement. Even when interpreters of Calvin address the person of the Holy Spirit in relation to atonement, they simply consider him to be the applier of the atoning work of Christ. In this context, the author will argue that the Holy Spirit plays an essential role in Calvin’s atonement theology itself. The author will show that, for Calvin, the Spirit is an indispensable component of Christ’s atoning work.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10057
Jeanetta N.B. Gregory
This article explores an emerging hermeneutic of participation arising from the feminist-Pentecostal dialogue. For many, Pentecostal and feminist hermeneutics appear incompatible. Further examination reveals the possibility of dialogue originating from their pneumatological, canonical, narratival, and anthropological hermeneutical convictions. This is reinforced through shared theological values, anthropological convictions, and common history. This feminist-Pentecostal dialogue yields a hermeneutic of participation marked by orthodoxy, orthopathy, and orthopraxy. Ultimately, this hermeneutic of participation fosters discipleship and the flourishing of the Church.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010005
Chris E.W. Green
This letter urges younger scholars in the Azusa Street tradition to take seriously their calling to the church, providing a critical description of Pentecostal theological education and offering a vision of a promising future. In agreement with Cheryl Bridges Johns, the letter argues that Pentecostal seminaries, colleges, and universities not only should exist, they can deliver a recognizably Pentecostal theological education, training ministers to do their sacred work in ways faithful to the distinctive spirituality of the Azusa Street tradition.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10054
F. K. Esoh
This article investigates the increase in the usage of ‘symbolic ritual wrist bands’ as symbols of power, protection, and healing in neo-Pentecostals seen as resonating with the religio-cultural practice of ritual bands in African primal religions. The study demonstrates that such practices indirectly satisfy the deep yearning of traditional communities who maintain a strong feeling of the versatility of symbolic ritual bands. The fact that most Africans remain deeply ingrained in their religio-cultural environment where it is believed that ritual bands attended to their spiritual and physical needs, the usage of symbolic wrist bands in most neo-Pentecostal churches is seen as bridging the gap created by missionary Christianity. This study employs the missio-cultural theory to explore the extent to which neo-Pentecostals are reconceptualising the idea of ritual wrist bands in the practice of African Christianity. It concludes that the neo-Pentecostal proliferation of wrist bands is relevant in the spiritual, psychological, social, cultural and theological missionising effort in Africa.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10049
Jon K. Newton
Pentecostalism has always struggled to define itself theologically from the beginning. Starting out as a marginal stream within Christianity, early Pentecostals were reluctant to compose statements of faith and were susceptible to a range of new doctrines, a problem that continues to this day. In this article, the author surveys the theological development of Pentecostalism in Australia, giving special attention to a specific Australian-born movement, Christian Revival Crusade, because of its distinctive doctrines of British-Israelism and deliverance of believers from evil spirits. The author concludes with some observations of recent doctrinal developments in Australian Pentecostalism before positing some causes for such changes and drawing some lessons for Pentecostalism as a whole.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10055
M. Nel
Early Pentecostals believed their experience of Spirit baptism represented the latter rain of prophecy that introduced Christ’s return. Therefore, their goal was to preach the Pentecostal gospel to all, expecting their success to hasten Christ’s return. They read the Bible through the lens of their charismatic experiences and left room for the Spirit, who inspired the Scriptures to explain its meaning. The next generations adopted a fundamentalist hermeneutical angle and included premillennialist dispensationalism to understand biblical prophecies. The doctrines of rapture, premillennialism, and a distinction between Israel and the church imply that the church belongs to the ‘parenthetical age’, indicating a delay in the prophetic timeline when Jews rejected Jesus. It took the emphasis away from the urgent need to evangelise the world, focusing on explaining the biblical ‘last events’ and setting timetables. It is argued that Pentecostals’ dispensationalism betrayed their unique ethos, values, and hermeneutical angle.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32020001
J. Thomas
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