Pub Date : 2020-09-21DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10010
C. S. Cole
This article continues the author’s journey of forming an ‘orthopathic hermeneutic’ with special attention to Pentecostalism and the ‘Texts of Terror’. It examines the narrative of Jephthah, his daughter, and her sacrifice as found in Judges 11. Texts of Terror like Jephthah’s daughter’s story have been long neglected, rejected, or protected by ministers and theologians alike. With the work of Pentecostal scholars such as R. Moore, C. Johns, and C. Green in mind, Cole identifies that Judges 11 and similarly terrifying texts can be used today to make meaning in the Church. By examining our own desires for and in light of the text, the Spirit can make meaning for one’s own life by revealing the heart of the reader. In such, the orthopathic reader is called to conformity with the compassion of Christ.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-21DOI: 10.1163/17455251-BJA10007
Benjamin Crace
Eastern forms of Christianity are being mined as possible sources for deepening and renewing Pentecostal-Charismatic theology, particularly its pneumatology. While applauding these efforts, this article suggests that such strategies are myopically focused on Eastern Orthodoxy while ignoring the riches of Oriental Orthodoxy, the Coptic Orthodox legacy in particular. By providing comparative accounts of Coptic practices of the charismata with the author’s experience within the neo-charismatic milieu, the essay surveys points of contact to heighten interest and underscore potential avenues of pneumatic inquiry.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-21DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10011
Kip H. Redick
This article is a phenomenological exploration of the grounds for pilgrimage as it is prophetically performed by both Moses and Jesus. Looking closely at Moses’ encounter with God’s manifestation, as well as Jesus’ ascending of a mountain after being offered a crown by the crowds, the article explores the contrast of two kinds of power, one associated with the camp and one beyond the camp. The exploration continues into the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon Christ’s followers in Jerusalem. These prophetic performances and events beyond the camp show pilgrimage to involve waiting, being measured, and both giving and receiving hospitality.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-21DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02902006
Adam G. White
In an increasingly individualistic culture, we have somewhat lost sight of the important community aspect of Christianity, particularly when it comes to church discipline. One of the more challenging aspects of modern church ministry is what to do when a person’s behaviour threatens the unity and wellbeing of the community. In the nt, we see harsh measures applied to such people, but how do we translate these examples into today’s church? This article looks at the practice of exile or expulsion in the world of the nt generally and the Pauline communities specifically. It will then consider the implications of the practice, as revealed in scripture, and the challenges presented to its implementation in the modern church.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-21DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02902004
U-Wen Low
Although both Pentecostalism and postcolonial thought seem to stand poles apart, they have a remarkable amount in common. Early Pentecostal revivals largely sprang from ‘subaltern groups’, people groups marginalized by colonial power and dominant groups. Bringing together Pentecostalism and postcolonial thought is a complex task, but one that promises to yield positive results. Exploring the text through the twin lenses of postcolonial thought and the distinctive Pentecostal emphasis on pneumatology results in a fresh hermeneutical perspective: that the Holy Spirit might be understood as a postcolonial agent of change that empowers those who have experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit to resist dominant structures of oppression. The New Testament text can therefore be understood as a ‘hidden transcript’, a disguised work of resistance composed by subaltern groups against dominance and oppression. This article therefore seeks to explore the theoretical underpinnings of a ‘Pentecostal, postcolonial reading’ of the New Testament.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-21DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02902005
Caroline R. Redick
This article investigates whether the charismatic renewal’s Via Spiritus, with its emphasis on festival, joy, and divine empowerment, has eclipsed the Via Crucis, with its somatic pedagogy of suffering and renunciation. It explores this dynamic by contrasting two practices: the medieval Catholic pilgrimage and charismatic revival-seeking. Through exploring the overlaps between these two practices, the revival is interpreted as a liminal journey, a festival of grace, and a ritual of renunciation. At the same time, contrasting the penitential ritual of pilgrimage and revivals reveals a deficit of repentance in charismatic practice and theology.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-17DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02901001
M. Nel
Classical Pentecostalism is traditionally regarded as a restorationist movement that justified its origins and explained its new practices as a continuation of the early church, as a work of the Spirit. For that reason, the gifts of the Spirit (charismata) were purportedly restored to the twentieth-century Pentecostal movement. Early Pentecostalism also claimed that they followed the early church in its hermeneutical prerogatives of reading the Bible through the lens of their charismatic practices. The article poses the question whether Pentecostalism in its restorationist urge should not reconsider its canon, since it differs from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible used by the early church, to include the books found in the Septuagint, the translation used by early non-Jewish Christians. It suggests that Pentecostals reconsider their biblical canon in the light of their restorationist urge rather than groundlessly following the Protestant canon as their predecessors did by using the Apocrypha as deuterocanonical, implying that it is accepted for personal and ecclesial edification but not for judging the genuineness of gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not (1 Cor. 12.10) and establishing the authority of ecclesiastical doctrines.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-17DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02901004
Daniela C. Augustine
This article offers a constructive exploration of Eastern Orthodox liturgical pneumatology’s potential contributions toward the development of Pentecostal liturgical theology. It highlights two main themes: the organic continuity between word and sacrament as a proclaimed and ‘choreographed’, communally-enacted theology; and the catechetical significance of ‘visualized theology’ or ‘theology in images’ within the context of worship in the Spirit, constituting the life of the church as a continual Pentecost.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-17DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02901002
Zachary Michael Tackett
Pentecostals visualize, read, and rehearse Scripture in ways that speak to a gospel of wholeness, inclusion, and uplift. Pentecostals use Scripture to participate via the Spirit in the continuing expression of gospel, with Scripture emerging from gospel. This gospel that gave birth to Scripture emerges anew in the reading, hearing, and rehearsal of Scripture. This article considers three models for the use of Scripture that empower Pentecostals to participate in a continuing expression of gospel. These are 1) gospel as mysterion, 2) gospel as liberation, and 3) gospel as embodied, prophetic voice.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-17DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02901005
M. Rice
Pentecostal ecstatic-aimed oral-aural dynamics, along with other elements integral to the tradition, imply a latent though largely unexplored aesthetic of sacred time. The author begins by assessing this aesthetic through a constructed methodology defined as Pentecostal notions of Festive and Founding Time. From this analysis, he prescriptively delineates five steps for adapting the historic liturgical calendar to Pentecostal spirituality, thereby arguing for a Pentecostal theological aesthetic and practice of sacred time, in a manner related to the tradition’s improvisational aesthetics of oral-aural liturgy. The author concludes by focusing these themes on the notions of aesthetics, suggesting how a Pentecostal theological aesthetic and practice of sacred time may contribute toward an ecumenically shared vision of beauty that transforms worshipers through the Spirit before God in the face of Jesus.
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