Author(s): NgwokePublished in: African Journal of Pentecostal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024)DOI: 10.4102/ajops.v1i1.23 Abstract A critical account of the rapid multiplication of Pentecostal churches in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and of what drives it. Ngwoke examines the economics and the ecclesiology together — church planting as vocation and as enterprise — in a setting where…
Author(s): BondoPublished in: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, Vol. 82, No. 1DOI: 10.4102/hts.v82i1.11036 Abstract A survey of Congolese Pentecostalism through three fundamental dimensions, written from within the context it describes. The article traces the movement’s trajectory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and asks what its present configuration implies for the decades ahead…
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): 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…
Author(s): Ernest van Eck (University of Pretoria)Published in: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2000)DOI: 10.4102/hts.v56i4.1802 Abstract Richard Bauckham challenged the scholarly consensus that each Gospel was written for a particular believing community, proposing instead that the Gospels were composed for open circulation among all the churches. Van Eck tests that…
Author(s): Marius Nel (North-West University, South Africa)Published in: Verbum et Ecclesia, Vol. 41, No. 1 (2020)DOI: 10.4102/ve.v41i1.2089 Abstract Early Pentecostals treated Mark 16:9–20 as authoritative, reading “these signs shall follow” as both a summons to worldwide mission and a test of the authenticity of Pentecostal experience. Nel accepts the manuscript evidence — the most ancient…
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