A Pentecostal Third Article Theology

Abstract

This article proposes a pentecostal theology of the Holy Spirit. It argues that the Holy Spirit plays a central role in the narrative of redemption from creation to eschaton. Indeed, the telos of redemption is the outpouring of the Spirit of Pentecost that culminates in the eschatological promise of the new creation. This eschatological work of the Holy Spirit indicates the Spirit’s immanent identity and agency as the divine person who completes the fellowship of the triune God. It begins with detailing areas of traditional pentecostal theology that prevent the development of pentecostal pneumatology that reflects the central place of the Holy Spirit in pentecostal experience and the biblical narrative of redemption. It then builds the case for a pentecostal pneumatology on the Holy Spirit’s role in the narrative of redemption from creation to eschaton. It concludes with a pentecostal account of the Holy Spirit’s identity in the immanent Trinity. Throughout, it articulates this pentecostal pneumatology considering the classical pentecostal theology of Spirit baptism and traditional Western and Eastern trinitarian theologies.