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Luke-Acts as Prophetic Challenge to the Modern Church

By On February 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Acts, Biblical Studies, Luke

The first readers of Luke’s narrative would perhaps not have seen his story as a nostalgic recollection of a time past but rather as a summons to an ideal that might be in danger of being lost, not as a work of bland historiography but as a thrilling act of utopian imagination, less a neutral [...]

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Preview of Pentecost in Luke 1-2

By On July 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Acts, Biblical Studies, Luke, Pentecostal/Charismatic Interests, Theology

Luke notes the work of the Holy Spirit surrounding Jesus’ birth unlike the other Gospels. Among the characters mentioned in narrative form that are exclusive to Luke’s Gospel are Zechariah, Elizabeth, Simeon, and Anna. Note that there are two females and two males, all of whom engage in prophetic speech. This seems to be a [...]

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My Views of the Pentecostal Spirit in Response to the Tensions Presented in G.W.H. Lampe’s Proposals

By On January 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Acts, Pentecostal/Charismatic Interests

Turner, M. (2000). Power from on High: The Spirit in Israel’s Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic.

Turner offers 7 major views within historical scholarship on the nature of the Pentecostal gift of the Holy Spirit. The fourth major view is dubbed, “The Gift of the Spirit Emphasized by [...]

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