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…
Author(s): Mookgo S. Kgatle (University of South Africa)Published in: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, Vol. 75, No. 4 (2019)DOI: 10.4102/hts.v75i4.5183 Abstract A critical engagement with the practice of prophecy in Southern African Pentecostalism, written from within the tradition rather than against it. Kgatle examines the commercialisation of prophetic ministry and the concentration of authority…
Author(s): Mookgo S. Kgatle; Thabang R. MofokengPublished in: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, Vol. 75, No. 4 (2019)DOI: 10.4102/hts.v75i4.5473 Abstract The authors ask what it is about the hermeneutic of experience that makes abusive prophetic practice possible in some neo-Pentecostal ministries. Rather than dismissing experience as a hermeneutical category, they trace the problem to…
Author(s): Marius Nel (North-West University, South Africa)Published in: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, Vol. 77, No. 2 (2021)DOI: 10.4102/hts.v77i2.6622 Abstract Nel examines how Pentecostals read Scripture through the lens of spiritual encounter. While Pentecostals hold a “high view” of the Bible in common with most conservative Protestants, their interpretive method distinctively expects the Spirit’s…
The Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published since 1998 by the faculty of the Asia Pacific Theological Seminary in Baguio City, in the Philippines. It appears twice each year, in February and August, and has now passed its twenty-eighth volume — making it one of the longest-running journals of its…
The Consortium of Pentecostal Archives is the largest freely accessible repository of primary Pentecostal sources in the world. Organized in 2011 as a collaborative effort among archives within the Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions, and relaunched with a rebuilt search platform in March 2023, it today offers close to 500,000 digitized pages drawn from more than…
Author(s): Robert R. WadholmPublished in: 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies — Trinity Theological Seminary Abstract This paper explores the role of experience in interpreting miracle narratives in Luke-Acts, advocating for a holistic hermeneutic that takes seriously presuppositions, exegetical analysis, biblical-theological synthesis, and contemporary application of miraculous texts. Wadholm surveys rationalist critiques…
Author(s): Gene CoppagePublished in: Unpublished Manuscript (Submitted for peer review) Abstract This article argues that Luke’s narrative in Acts presents Spirit baptism as a sovereign, observable, and categorically distinct event from both initial conversion and water baptism. The primary evidence is drawn from Acts 8:4–17, where the Samaritan converts — already believing and water-baptized —…
Author(s): Arden C. AutryPublished in: Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2018), pp. 127–129DOI: 10.31380/2573-6345.1064 Abstract A critical review of Craig S. Keener’s Spirit Hermeneutics: Reading Scripture in Light of Pentecost (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2016). Autry evaluates Keener’s proposal for a Spirit-informed hermeneutic that balances historical-grammatical exegesis with the lived experience of…
Author(s): Martin MittelstadtPublished in: Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity, Vol. 6 (2015), pp. 76–92 Abstract A critical review of David J. Courey’s What Has Wittenberg to Do with Azusa? Luther’s Theology of the Cross and Pentecostal Triumphalism (T&T Clark, 2015). Mittelstadt evaluates Courey’s constructive theological dialogue between Lutheran theology of the cross and Pentecostal triumphalism…
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