Author(s): Mookgo S. Kgatle (University of South Africa)Published in: Verbum et Ecclesia, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2024)DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.3139 Abstract Kgatle takes the “pneumatological imagination” — the category Amos Yong made central to contemporary Pentecostal theology — and asks what it yields when directed at sustainable development. The move from altar to action is the argument:…
Author(s): Marius Nel (North-West University, South Africa)Published in: African Journal of Pentecostal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024)DOI: 10.4102/ajops.v1i1.14 Abstract What does prophetic ministry become in a society of extreme inequality? Nel examines the practice of prophecy among South African Pentecostals against the country’s socio-economic conditions, and asks whether the prophetic word functions as consolation,…
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): 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): 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): 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): Rendani C. Nthakheni; Ndidzulafhi MudauPublished in: African Journal of Pentecostal Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2025)DOI: 10.4102/ajops.v2i1.53 Abstract The authors argue that pneumatology has been quietly marginalised in contemporary Christian theology and practice, precisely as churches confront the technological and philosophical implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Drawing on historical-critical analysis, systematic theology and…
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