Tag: pneumatology
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Interpreting The Samaritans Of Acts 8 The Waterloo Of Pentecostal Soteriology And Pneumatology
Interpreting The Waterloo the Samaritans of Acts 8: of Pentecostal Soteriology and Pneumatology? Max Turner There is clearly a deliberate ambiguity in the title….
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Is there any distinction in the Greek between “Praying in/with the Spirit” from Ephesians 6:18 & the similar words in 1 Corinthians 14:15?
In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians Paul indicates that he prefers to pray both in (or with) the Spirit and in (or with) the mind. τί οὖν ἐστίν; προσεύξομαι τῷ πνεύματι, προσεύξομαι δὲ καὶ τῷ νοΐ· ψαλῶ τῷ πνεύματι, ψαλῶ δὲ καὶ τῷ…
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Does the Holy Spirit’s distribution of spiritual gifts depend in any way on how eagerly we desire them?
In 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 (NIV), Paul explains that the distribution of the spiritual gifts is a sovereign decision of the Holy Spirit, who distributes the spiritual gifts as He sees fit: 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same …
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Spirit descending on Jesus – for man’s belief or deeper purpose?
John 1:32 (NASB): John testified saying: "I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He remained upon Him. The above quote from John the Baptist is referring to what we read about in Luke 3:21-22, when the Holy S…
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What is the difference between “receiving the Holy Spirit” (Acts 8:14-20; 19:1-7) and “being filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 9:17; 4:31)?
Context of "receiving the Holy Spirit": 14 Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, 15 who came down and prayed for them that they would receive the Holy …
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Kindness and goodness – fruit of Spirit, what is the difference?
I was studying Gl 5.22, and I came across this virtues – kindness and goodness. I am Brazilian, and I looked up in dictionary for these two words in Portuguese (Bondade and Benignidade) and they are often used as synonyms. So I tried to lo…
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Subject To Spirit The Promise Of Pentecostal Feminist Pneumatology And Its Witness To Systematics
Pneuma 35 (2013) 48-60 Subject to Spirit: The Promise of Pentecostal Feminist Pneumatology and Its Witness to Systematics Janice Rees Charles Sturt University c/-…
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The Holy Spirit And The Renewal Of All Things Pneumatology In Paul And Jürgen Moltmann
318 Book Reviews / Pneuma 30 (2008) 315-370 T. David Beck, The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things: Pneumatology in Paul and…
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The Holy Spirit As Communion Colin Gunton’s Pneumatology Of Communion And Frank Macchia’s Pneumatology Of Koinonia, By I. Leon Harris
260 Book Reviews I. Leon Harris The Holy Spirit as Communion: Colin Gunton’s Pneumatology of Communion and Frank Macchia’s Pneumatology of Koinonia(Eugene,OR: Pickwick, 2017)….
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“the Holy Spirit” vs. “the Spirit” in Acts 2:4 -What are the meaning and reference differences?
Can the Holy Spirit, the Person, be a "medium" (be filled with) and an "agent" (gave the utterance) at the same time? English translations added "the" and capitalized the first letter "S" arbitrarily…
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What is John 1:33 directly referring to?
John 1:33 (NASB): I did not recognize Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, this is the One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’ What is this verse direct…
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The Pneumatology Of William Tyndale
THE PNEUMATOLOGY by Donald Dean Smeeton William Tyndale is frequently OF WILLIAM TYNDALE treated in the histories of transla- is rightly a printed English…