Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010004
Daniel D. Isgrigg
Abstract This article will explore Carlton Pearson’s Metacostalism as an example of the continuing problem of Pentecostal heterodoxy within the Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement. These theological currents, which are often found at the margins, represent a unique growing subset of Pentecostal believers that do not fit regular Evangelical orthodoxy. In considering the future of Pentecostal theology, this article will suggest that Pentecostal heterodoxy will only grow as conventional Evangelical orthodoxy continues to face sharp criticism and deconstruction. It will suggest that Pearson’s Pentecostal heterodoxy is an example of the type of conversations that will inform the future of Pentecostal thought.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010011
Craig S. Keener
Abstract Lisa Bowens’s African American Readings of Paul provides a fascinating adventure for all those interested in reception history of Paul and/or the history of the Black Church in the United States. Although also engaging modern scholarship, Bowens allows the historic voices of the Black Church to speak for themselves, thus sometimes challenging paradigms established by earlier scholars working from more limited evidence. When enslaved persons read the Bible, they embraced its liberationist and justice-oriented principles, rescuing Paul from the counterreadings of the slaveholders. Bowens sympathetically highlights the spiritual experiences of historic African American readers, by which they appropriated Paul’s ethos more deeply. Applying the same principles, African American women recognized Paul’s appreciation for women ministry colleagues and so contextualized his apparent prohibitions of women in ministry. The figures treated in this book are of more than historical interest; they often provide models of faithful discipleship and faithful readings of Scripture for readers today.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010001
Scott A. Ellington
Abstract Interpretations of Job have traditionally focused on the question of theodicy and, because the book offers no clear response to the problems of God’s justice in the face of innocent suffering, suggested explanations have ranged widely and lack scholarly consensus. This article explores the suggestion that the book’s focus is not on God’s justice, but rather on the failure of the Friends as they accuse and victimize rather than support and encourage an innocent sufferer. This study will consider the significance of friendship, the role of the Satan, offering right and wrong speech, the representational nature of Job’s suffering, and the model presented to the community of faith by the Friends’ failed speech and negative example.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010014
Lisa M. Bowens
Abstract African American Readings of Paul: Reception, Resistance, and Transformation is the first monograph devoted to investigating a historical trajectory of how African Americans have understood the apostle Paul and utilized his work in their own writings. The central question the book explores is how African Americans interpreted Paul and the Pauline epistles from the 1700s to the mid-twentieth century. Readers will find analyses of primary texts that include petitions, sermons, essays, and autobiographies. The book also examines conversion narratives from the formerly enslaved and their use of Paul to describe these supernatural encounters. The research included in the book involves a three-layered nexus of historical, theological, and biblical inquiry.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010006
Benjamin D. Crace
Abstract In speculative and constructivist modes, this study seeks to establish pneumatic precognition as an important theological topos among scholars concerned with the action of the Spirit. It follows an abductive approach that first offers a ‘thick description’ of pneumatic precognition based on the biblical text and personal experience in pentecostal ‘testimony’ mode. Based on the thick description, it then moves beyond the naïve realism of ‘God knows the future; God told me’, by drawing out some of the cosmological implications of precognition, offering potential models and dialogue partners. Lastly, moving back to the biblical text, it unpacks the theological implications of retrocausality through an eschatological reading of Jesus’ restoration of Peter in Jn 21.15-17, suggesting that individual experiences of pneumatic precognition participate in the sacramental cosmic drama.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010012
Aaron J. Robinson
Abstract Reception history is gaining popularity as an interpretive approach to Scripture. The dearth of extant primary sources in biblical interpretation from the African American community before the Civil Rights Era can present challenges for hearing black voices in reception history. In her remarkable monograph, Lisa Bowens examines sermons, letters, public addresses, and essays from African Americans, as early as the eighteenth century, surveying their engagement and interpretation of Pauline texts and Paul as a biblical figure. Her work elevates the voices of African Americans, while presenting an exceptional model of reception history at work. Her research demonstrates early African Americans using Scripture, particularly the letters and life of Paul, for rebuttal and reform of social injustices.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010008
Christian Tsekpoe
This article highlights for African Pentecostal Christianity some implications of the current shift in the centre of Christian vitality to the south, as well as the rapid growth of Pentecostalism. Through a qualitative analysis of the activities of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movement in Africa, the article explores the implications of the two phenomena for Pentecostal-Charismatic theological education in Africa as well as African Pentecostal-Charismatic leadership. The article concludes by inviting both scholars and practitioners of Pentecostal-Charismatic mission in Africa to take advantage of the opportunities and at the same time confront the challenges facing Pentecostal mission on the continent.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010009
F. Benyah
This article presents an empirical case study of the commodification of religious substances in a Ghanaian Pentecostal/charismatic church. The author argues that the primal goal of religion and the penchant for success and good health among Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians help in the easy commodification of religious substances by pastor-prophets. However, the commodification of religion or religious substances, the article argues, eschews godly values, beliefs, and practices that have implications for the faith and commitment of believers, their religious lives, and their commitment to the church and society.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10037
Lee Roy Martin
This survey of the Spirit’s activity examines all thirty-nine occurrences of the word רוח (‘spirit’) in the book of Psalms. The study of these texts suggests that although the Psalter presents neither an organized pneumatology nor a complete one, the Spirit is described as the agent of God’s life-giving power and as the administrator of God’s moral authority. As the agent of God’s life-giving power, the Holy Spirit creates all life and sustains all life. As administrator of God’s moral authority, the Holy Spirit saves, guides, sanctifies, and enacts judgment.
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