Author(s): Aku Stephen AntombikumsPublished in: Verbum et Ecclesia, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2024)DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2915 Abstract If the Spirit speaks in the act of reading, is what the reader receives revelation? Antombikums examines the epistemic status that Pentecostal hermeneutics assigns to religious experience, and the consequences of treating experience as immediate revelation rather than as a…
Author(s): Marius Nel (North-West University, South Africa)Published in: Theologia Viatorum, Vol. 47, No. 1 (2023)DOI: 10.4102/tv.v47i1.222 Abstract Nel returns to Acts in reply to the critical study published earlier the same year, defending a Pentecostal reading of Spirit baptism and the place of glossolalia within it. He revisits the classic texts — Acts 2, 8,…
Author(s): Stevanus et al.Published in: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, Vol. 79, No. 2 (2023)DOI: 10.4102/hts.v79i2.8115 Abstract A critical examination of the Pentecostal reading of Spirit baptism in the book of Acts. The authors test the doctrine of a distinct, subsequent experience against the narrative of Acts itself, pressing the question that has divided…
Author(s): Michael J. Kok (University of Sheffield)Published in: Doctoral thesis, University of Sheffield (2013) — later published by Fortress Press, 2015 Abstract Kok surveys the second-century reception of Mark, from Papias of Hierapolis to Clement of Alexandria, and finds the patristic writers hesitant to embrace the Gospel because they perceived it as too easily adapted…
Author(s): Emerson B. Powery (Messiah University)Published in: Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2003), pp. 184–198DOI: 10.1177/096673690301100203 Abstract Scholarship has generally supposed that the Spirit’s function in the second Gospel is to equip Jesus’ followers for spiritual assignments and prophetic speech. Powery argues that Markan narrative rhetoric points elsewhere: only Spirit-empowered interpreters, Jesus…
Author(s): Frank D. Macchia (Vanguard University)Published in: Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 103, No. 3 (July 2010), pp. 329–349 Abstract A significant global constituency of Pentecostal Christians seeks to preserve the apostolic faith precisely by rejecting the Nicene–Constantinopolitan Creed and the Trinitarian dogma it supported. Macchia examines the dialogue between Oneness and Trinitarian Pentecostals — the…
Author(s): Mookgo Solomon KgatlaPublished in: Missionalia, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2016) Abstract Kgatla traces how the Azusa Street Revival shaped the early Apostolic Faith Mission in South Africa through the missionaries John G. Lake and Thomas Hezmalhalch, both of whom had direct contact with William Seymour before travelling in 1908. They carried two defining marks:…
Author(s): John Christopher Thomas; Kimberly Ervin AlexanderPublished in: Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2003), pp. 147–170DOI: 10.1177/096673690301100201 Abstract Within early Pentecostalism, Mark 16:9–20 shaped practice and proclamation to an inordinate degree: “these signs shall follow” served simultaneously as a summons to worldwide mission and as a litmus test for the authenticity of…
Author(s): Christopher Richmann (Baylor University)Published in: Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2015), pp. 224–243DOI: 10.1163/15700747-03702018 Abstract In 1910 William H. Durham preached “The Finished Work of Calvary” and divided the young Pentecostal movement over the doctrine of sanctification — a rupture from which the Assemblies of God…
Author(s): Yan Suarsana (University of Heidelberg)Published in: PentecoStudies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2014), pp. 173–196 Abstract The revival at Pandita Ramabai’s Mukti Mission in Kedgaon, India, has gained wide currency as one of the birthplaces of global Pentecostalism — and it preceded Azusa Street by a year. Suarsana reads the episode from a postcolonial perspective…
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