PneumaPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10113
Gani Wiyono
{"title":"Reading the Pentecostal Interpretations of the Book of Acts Contrapuntally","authors":"Gani Wiyono","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10113","url":null,"abstract":"This article responds to Ekaputra Tupamahu’s article that offers an alternative pentecostal reading of the book of Acts. Tupamahu challenges mainstream pentecostal interpretations that regard missionaries as pivotal characters in the Acts narrative. Alternatively, he suggests an interpretation focusing on migrants as the primary characters in the Acts narrative. In this article, these two opposing views are framed using an approach known as contrapuntal reading. The goal is not harmonization to reduce the tension between the two but to expand the horizon of the readers of Acts through the uniqueness of each reading.","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10114
Sammy Alfaro
{"title":"Spirit of Jubilee: How Pentecost Birthed and Renews the Church","authors":"Sammy Alfaro","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10114","url":null,"abstract":"Often considered almost an afterthought in some evangelical theological works, pneumatology among Pentecostal theologians became the quintessential focus and integrative motif for doing theology. But pneumatology should be more than an exploration of tongues and giftings; more than a study of the what, when, how, and why of Spirit baptism. Books explaining preferred interpretations of the gift of tongues as <jats:italic>an</jats:italic> or <jats:italic>the</jats:italic> evidence for the baptism in the Holy Spirit abound. The purpose of this address is to establish the narrative of Acts 2 as a formative and programmatic vision for the life and mission of the church as birthed and renewed in the power of Pentecost. This talk aims to outline some of the forays of Pentecostal pneumatological ecclesiology by underscoring the liberative dimensions of the Spirit of Jubilee.","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10111
Michael D. O’Neil
{"title":"“Turned into a Different Person”","authors":"Michael D. O’Neil","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10111","url":null,"abstract":"Karl Barth’s final volume of his <jats:italic>Church Dogmatics</jats:italic> includes a subsection entitled “Baptism with the Holy Spirit” as part of his discussion of the foundation of the Christian life (<jats:italic>Church Dogmatics</jats:italic> <jats:sc>IV</jats:sc>/4, 2–40). Analysis of this subsection shows that Barth conceives of this “baptism” as a person’s conversion, the beginning of human faithfulness toward God. As such, it is very different from typical pentecostal construals of the doctrine, which perhaps accounts for the surprising paucity of pentecostal engagement with this subsection. This essay presents a detailed analysis of Barth’s doctrine and shows that it includes significant resonances with pentecostal doctrine, despite obvious differences. It argues that Barth’s doctrine might help Pentecostals retain the charismatic and missional emphases of their doctrine within a broader theology of the Spirit’s work in the Christian life. The essay suggests several points of dialogue between Barth and Pentecostals in which both parties might benefit from the other’s insights, illustrating this possibility with a larger discussion of the issue of subsequence.","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10109
Craig Keener, Médine Keener
{"title":"Commission, Mission and Migration in Acts","authors":"Craig Keener, Médine Keener","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10109","url":null,"abstract":"This response to the article by our friend and colleague Ekaputra Tupamahu expresses features of both appreciation and dissent. We should note at the outset, however, that a key part of the difference is likely semantic: how “mission” is defined. It may be more a specific model of mission to which Dr. Tupamahu objects, rather than every model of mission. In fact, as dialogue provides clarification, I suspect we have significant common ground. The colonial model of mission followed the model of Paul’s rivals in Galatia; Paul proclaimed the kingdom good news in a way that did not impose extrabiblical Jewish culture on gentiles. Indeed, Acts includes a clearly Asian mission to bring the good news to Europe.","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10112
William Bowes
{"title":"Vindicating Spirit, Deceiving Spirits","authors":"William Bowes","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10112","url":null,"abstract":"The first letter to Timothy includes a reference to a primitive hymnic formula that grants a central role to the Holy Spirit in Jesus’s resurrection. This reference coheres with other primitive (pre-Pauline) references such as Rom 1:3–4 and with Paul’s earlier teaching on the Spirit (as in Rom 8:11). In a letter that seems otherwise sparse in its pneumatology, 1 Tim 3:16 is important for understanding the relationship between the Holy Spirit and Jesus’s identity, and I suggest that the mention of the Spirit here informs the way that the statements in 4:1–5 should be read, and the way that the letter’s overall portrayal of truth and falsehood should be understood. I will discuss the interpretation of 1 Tim 3:16—4:5, proposing a pentecostal reading of this section of the letter, one that takes seriously the vindicating role of the Spirit in Jesus’s resurrection as a model for believer’s future resurrection, one that coheres with the pneumatology of earlier Pauline epistles, and one that coheres with the treatment of false teachers and demonic spirits in other New Testament texts.","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10110
Ekaputra Tupamahu
{"title":"Is Acts Really “The Most Overtly Missionary Book”?","authors":"Ekaputra Tupamahu","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10110","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is twofold: first, to challenge the white reading of the book of Acts, and second, to offer an alternative reading by placing the story of the marginalized people, the colonized people, at the center. The first part of this article interrogates how white pentecostal scholars read the book of Acts as a missionary book and identify themselves with the disciples in the book of Acts. After presenting the problems with this reading, I propose an alternative interpretation of the movement in Acts as a migration movement instead of a missionary movement. Reading it from a migration point of view centers on the story of a marginalized group of people trying to find a safe place to live because of the sociopolitical instability in their homeland.","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10115
Katherine J. Austring, Archie J. Spencer
{"title":"Tongues of Fire: Giving Voice to Pentecostal Theology","authors":"Katherine J. Austring, Archie J. Spencer","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10115","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a review and analysis of Frank D. Macchia’s <jats:italic>Tongues of Fire</jats:italic>: <jats:italic>A Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith</jats:italic>. The method of our review encompasses two basic principles, that of summary and critical analysis. In the summary sections, our aim is simply to highlight the main features of Macchia’s system. The principle that emerges from this summary is the attempt on Macchia’s part to relate the whole of his system to a “theology of the third article.” The article divides into four parts. Part one establishes Macchia’s general method, with special reference to his appeal to “a theology of the third article.” Parts two and three turn to a basic summary of the main features of the doctrines of God, Christ, Spirit, Church, and Eschatology. Part four is a brief critical analysis that highlights both the successes and questions that have emerged in Macchia’s system.","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10108
Daniela Rizzo
{"title":"Animal Glossolalia: A Pneumatological Framework for Animal Theology","authors":"Daniela Rizzo","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10108","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article extends the concept of glossolalia to encompass the idea of creaturely “sighs and groans,” emphasizing that animals, despite the apparent absence of reflective consciousness, harbor the capacity for expressions such as praise, lament, and prophecy. Within this research, a model of “animal glossolalia” is introduced, transcending the confines of human experience to delve into how animals engage in this unique form of spiritual expression through the Spirit. It posits that God hears the voices of all his non-human creatures through their sighs and groans. This exploration of animal spirituality and glossolalia challenges prevailing anthropocentric perspectives, advocating for a broader and more inclusive comprehension of glossolalia that embraces all of God’s creatures through the interceding Spirit.</p>","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140623064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10106
E. Janet Warren
{"title":"The Imago Dei and the Indwelling Spirit","authors":"E. Janet Warren","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Charismatic theology has engaged little with the concept of the <em>imago Dei</em> and has sometimes emphasized eschatology over creation. This article reconsiders views on the <em>imago Dei</em> in light of the concept of divine presence, building on notions of intensification and suggesting the concept of activation. I propose that as God breathes his Spirit into the first humans and pours out his Spirit on all flesh, a primary way in which we image God is by manifesting his divine presence in the world. Through the indwelling Spirit (a structural aspect of the <em>imago Dei</em> that is activated through belief in Christ), we are united with God the Father and one another (relational aspects of the <em>imago Dei</em>) and enabled to exercise responsible dominion over creation (a functional aspect). Thus the Spirit at creation is continuous with the Spirit at Pentecost.</p>","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140623027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PneumaPub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10105
Julia Kuhlin
{"title":"Swedish Pentecostal Churches’ Use of the Concept of Mission","authors":"Julia Kuhlin","doi":"10.1163/15700747-bja10105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the past two decades, the Swedish pentecostal movement has undergone a major transformation in its way of organizing and collaborating around mission work. In this explorative study, the purpose is to investigate how these and other changes have influenced how contemporary Swedish pentecostal churches understand and make use of the concept of <em>mission</em>. The data for the study consists of texts from the churches’ websites and draws on conceptual history in its theoretical and methodological approach. The findings of the study indicate a theological shift within the Swedish pentecostal movement. Among other things, it highlights a disconnect between the concept of mission and eschatological urgency and notes that priority is no longer given to mission as evangelism, over social work. The study also points to a linguistic instability associated with the concept of mission wherein the term “international work” is being used interchangeably with it and has, on some churches’ websites, even replaced the “mission” altogether, a finding that suggests an ongoing dispute over the definition of mission.</p>","PeriodicalId":43699,"journal":{"name":"Pneuma","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140623293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}