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…
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Author(s): Gene CoppagePublished in: Unpublished Manuscript (Submitted for peer review) Abstract This article argues that Luke’s narrative in Acts presents Spirit baptism as a sovereign, observable, and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): Arie W. ZwiepPublished in: PentecoStudies, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2007) 127–149 Abstract Examines Luke’s distinctive theology of Spirit baptism from an Evangelical perspective. Zwiep provides a careful exegetical analysis of the Lukan corpus, engaging Pentecostal readings of Spirit baptism as a subsequent and empowering experience, and situating these within broader evangelical and biblical-theological discussions….
Author(s): Harold D. HunterPublished in: Pneuma / Holiness Pentecostal Studies Abstract Examines the initial-evidence doctrine — the teaching that speaking in tongues is the necessary sign of Spirit baptism — from a European-American Holiness Pentecostal standpoint. Hunter engages diverse theological perspectives within the movement, assessing the biblical, historical, and ecumenical dimensions of this foundational but…
Author(s): Harold D. HunterPublished in: Enrichment Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring 2006), pp. 78–90 Abstract Examines the historical and theological development of the doctrine of Spirit baptism as it emerged from the Azusa Street Revival, tracing how its contours were shaped and transmitted within early Pentecostalism. Hunter argues that the Azusa Street Revival was…
How the doctrine of salvation shifts when it is thought from within Pentecostal experience, rather than merely against Calvinism, Arminianism or Lutheranism.
Before Azusa there was Wesley. The Holiness Movement reordered the doctrine of sanctification and, in doing so, prepared the ground where Pentecostalism would be born.
Pentecostal pneumatology does not end in experience: it exists to empower service. This article follows the doctrine of the Spirit through to that practical consequence.
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