Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10043
Benjamin Marx
In 1987 Leo O’Reilly observed that ‘signs and wonders’ and its function in the overall narrative of Acts is a neglected topic. Only a few scholars have taken up the challenge and contributed to this topic. In this article, the author will strengthen O’Reilly’s arguments and further demonstrate that Luke uses the collocation of signs and wonders to argue for a strong parallel of Jesus and Moses and the ‘prophet to come’. Luke additionally demonstrates the continuity of Jesus’ prophetic ministry through his followers. In Acts the progress of early Christian mission is also associated with signs and wonders. Luke employs a chiasm – created throughout his use of signs and wonders – to argue for the church as the divinely commissioned continuation of salvation history.
1987年Leo O ' reilly观察到“神迹奇事”及其在使徒行传整体叙事中的作用是一个被忽视的话题。只有少数学者接受了这一挑战，并对这一主题做出了贡献。在这篇文章中，作者将加强O ' reilly的论点，并进一步证明路加使用神迹奇事的搭配来论证耶稣、摩西和“将要来的先知”的强烈平行。路加福音还通过他的跟随者证明了耶稣先知事工的连续性。在使徒行传中，早期基督教传教的进展也与神迹奇事有关。路加运用了一种交错——通过他对神迹和奇迹的运用——来论证教会是神委托的救赎历史的延续。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10051
Mark Wilson
The Lord’s Prayer is one of the most familiar scriptural texts in Christendom, recited regularly by believers around the world. Because the Matthean text of the prayer is used liturgically, Luke’s version is often neglected. Not only is it one-third shorter, but the Lukan text is also situated differently in the context of Jesus’ ministry. Both versions evidence a prominent tautology in the English translations of the fourth petition. This petition also has a notorious hapax legomenon first noted by Origen. The article first discusses these features of the Lord’s Prayer in Luke. It then elucidates the context of Luke’s version by noting that it is set within a larger pericope that repeatedly emphasizes the Holy Spirit. Because of this emphasis, the Lord’s Prayer in Luke should be interpreted using a pneumatological reading.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10052
William B. Bowes
While Jude and 1 John emerged from different situations, each letter makes a case against the beliefs and behaviors of groups causing disruption in their respective communities. Both arguments against their opponents involve appeals to authority, necessary because the opponents legitimize themselves and their authority by claiming God’s Spirit. In this article, the author argues that the message of both letters is better understood when read alongside first-century views of S/spirit possession and represent contemporaneous attempts to distinguish who legitimately possesses God’s Spirit. For Jude, this entails conformity to divinely established authoritative structures, defining and unifying the community and delimiting behaviors. For 1 John, this entails conformity to the community’s authoritative tradition, defining and unifying the community and distinguishing truth from error. Reading these letters in this way aids our understanding of how early communities handled division and how their pneumatologies relate to the need to adhere to a certain order.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10050
Benjamin Crace
This article contests the current narrative of the development of the Pentecostal theology of tongues. It argues that 19th and 20th century Spiritualism is a critical and overlooked contextual factor in the historiography of the transition from xenolalia to glossolalia, and, consequently, Pentecostal theology more broadly. Its rival claims to hosting spiritual communication formed part of the backdrop against which a Pentecostal theology of tongues emerged. In light of Spiritualism’s impact, the author concludes that the missionary disappointment narrative needs serious revision. Further, he concludes that the historical psychical research into Spiritualism has potential purchase for contemporary pneumatology.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10047
Minggus Minarto Pranoto
This article aims to emphasize the importance of the unity of the doctrines of Christology and Pneumatology that can be used to support the struggle for justice for women’s leadership in the context of the Church. One-sided or unbalanced emphasis on Christology alone or Pneumatology alone in theology can lead to injustice in the context of women’s leadership in the Church. If the teaching of Christology is dominant, but Pneumatology is a deficit – in relation to ecclesiology – then the concept to be emphasized is the Church was founded solely on the work of Jesus Christ, who was male. On the other hand, a dominant Pneumatology and a Christological deficit will obscure the support for justice for the emergence of female leaders in the Church.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010003
J. Griffiths
The coming of the Spirit of God at Pentecost (Acts 2.1-4) is described in dense imagery, involving auditory, visual, and somatic elements. This study outlines the recent scholarship on these theophanic elements, and in particular, the parallels with the temple inauguration theophanies in the Old Testament. While these parallels are increasingly becoming accepted, the implications of the temple inauguration imagery in Acts 2.1-4 remains unresolved. The core issue revolves around whether it is the Spirit or Jesus who now embodies the theophanic presence of God which once resided in the Jerusalem temple. This study concludes that it is the Spirit of God that now embodies the glory of God which resided in the temple, with the early Jesus community being the new eschatological temple of God.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010010
C. Kaunda
The task of this article is to interrogate and reconstruct Fabien Eboussi Boulaga’s theory of the Christic model as a pragmatic response to negative messianisms among African Pentecostals. Taking the hint from the two-natures messianic metaphoricity, the article argues that the messianic structure of Christ as an eternal myth is infinitely culturally demythologized into different historical and cultural contexts. It concludes by demonstrating that the two-natures messianicity captures a dialectic connection between divine infinity and human finitude. A pragmatic reconceptualization of the two-natures messianicity serves as a structuring principle or functional messianic model in the search for a balance of power and accountability in the struggle against menacing dominant hegemonies. It is critical because African Pentecostalism functions with the power-over as a structuring principle which makes congregants vulnerable to abuse of spiritual power and objectification, sexualization, and exploitation of a mystified mass.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010013
A. Rebecca Basdeo Hill
Abstract African American Readings of Paul is a study of the various ways African Americans have used Paul’s epistles from the 1700s to the mid-twentieth century. Bowens investigates how African Americans received and responded to Paul’s writings. While other studies have examined African Americans’ interpretations of Scripture, Bowens’s methodology, focus, and scope, along with her exceptional knowledge in the Pauline epistles, distinguish her work from others.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010002
Michael Austin Kamenicky
Abstract This article reevaluates the formative power of speaking in tongues through dialogue with Lauren Winner’s The Dangers of Christian Practice . It uses Winner’s notion of ‘characteristic damage’, her idea that the characteristic good of a practice can be damaged in unique ways, to engage previous scholarly accounts that have argued for the formative and deformative potential of glossolalia and xenolalia . By juxtaposing these accounts with one another, in light of Winner’s framework, this article seeks to enrich the theological perspective on tongues. Ultimately, its examination of these conflicting accounts yields a constructive synthesis that posits entanglement as the characteristic good of speaking in tongues, both as glossolalia and xenolalia . This final synthesis enables an account of God’s gifts that is honest about both the goodness of the gift and the brokenness of the recipient.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010007
Ricardo Alvelo
Abstract The issue of violence against women is no stranger to the people of Puerto Rico, which currently has the highest per capita rate in the world of women over 14 killed by their partners. Coming from a Puerto Rican heritage, the author presents findings that can move us toward a Pentecostal Puerto Rican way to reflect theologically on this issue, (Agustina Nuñez’s Loíza feast metaphor for example), while highlighting the stories of Puerto Rican women like Rev. Leoncia Rosado Rosseau and others, whose work in Pentecostal and other church traditions have addressed violence against women. The author also presents ways Nuñez’s metaphor and these stories go along with practice of the Eucharist. These elements challenge readers to address and push back ideas that promote violence against women while contributing to the Pentecostal and global conversation on violence against women.
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