Pentecostalism in Context: Essays in Honor of William W. Menzies
Overview
Pentecostalism in Context is a collection of essays produced by Pentecostal scholars from North America, Europe, and Asia. The essays, produced in their various geographical and cultural contexts, reflect the rich diversity that characterizes the Pentecostal movement. Biblical, theological, and missiological issues relevant to the Pentecostal movement are treated. The book thus represents a valuable resource for those seeking to understand better the key intellectual currents within this dynamic and influential movement. The essays are offered in honor of William Menzies, a leading Pentecostal scholar and Chancellor of Asia Pacific Theological Seminary (Baguio City, Philippines).
Top Highlights
“Being more impressed by Pentecostal practice than Pentecostal theory, I was more struck by the spiritual reality of ‘Pentecost’ than by the Pentecostal doctrine of baptism in the Holy Spirit. I went through a phase of strong affirmation of the reality, while questioning the terminology of baptism in the Spirit.7 I was initially led back to greater sympathy for the Pentecostal terminology by the pragmatic observation that there was a positive correlation between use of this language and people being led into the reality.” (Page 99)
“Baptism in the Spirit, to which glossolalia points, has always been understood as the coming of God’s Spirit into the believer’s life in a very focused way.” (Page 84)
“Secondly, that Paul did not think of glossolalia as an actual earthly language is indicated by several pieces of converging evidence.” (Page 32)
“the sure evidence that the future had already been set in motion” (Page 26)
“If the Pentecostal experience of baptism in the Spirit is understood as essentially an experience of an overwhelming divine presence to which the subject can only respond with total receptivity, then the doctrine of ‘initial evidence’ is a generally accurate schematization of it.” (Page 93)
- Title: Pentecostalism in Context: Essays in Honor of William W. Menzies
- Authors: Wonsuk Ma, Robert P. Menzies
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Menzies, William W; Pentecostalism; Holy Spirit
- ISBNs: 9781556356742, 1556356749
- Resource ID: LLS:PNTCSTLSMCNTXT
- Resource Type: text.monograph.festschrift
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:16:57Z
