The Evolution of a Pentecostal Scholar

Acknowledgements


List of Tables


Abbreviations


Introduction


Part 1

Journeying with Peers: Review Essays

1 Academic and Pentecostal: An Appreciation of Roger Stronstad

1 Taking Ownership of a Pentecostal Heritage


2 A Classic in the Making: The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke


3 Enlarging the Reformation Vision


4 The Life in the Spirit New Testament Commentary: A Challenge to Canonical Chronology


5 Hermeneutical Debate


6 Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Roger Stronstad




2 Reimagining Luke-Acts: Amos Yong and the Biblical Foundation of Pentecostal Theology

1 New Crossroad: Pentecost and Pentecostals after a Century


2 Yong and the Context for Luke’s Pneumatological Imagination


3 Luke, Pentecostals, and Yong: Conflicting Messages on Women


4 New Territory: Performing Interreligious Hospitality


5 Performing Inclusivity: Re-imagining Politics, (Dis)ability and (Im)migration


6 Conclusion




3 Craig Keener’s Acts: An Exegetical Encyclopedia in Four Volumes: An Almost Exhaustive and Exhausting Work

1 Introduction to the Commentary


2 Commentary Proper


3 Luke and Acts vs. Luke-Acts


4 Publication Oddities and Challenges


5 Prospective Readership


6 Final Remarks: Utter Admiration




4 For Profit or Delight?: Richard Pervo’s Contributions to Lukan Studies

1 The Emergence of Pervo—Foundations for a Career in Luke and Acts


2 The Works at Hand


3 Evaluation


4 Implications for a Pentecostal Readership




Part 2

Themes in Luke-Acts

5 Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: A Theology of Hospitality in Luke-Acts

1 Hospitality in the Ancient World


2 The New Testament and Hospitality


3 Hospitality in Luke-Acts


4 Pentecost: Enlarging the Vision


5 Jesus on the Margins: Guest and Host


6 The Church at the Margins: Jesus to the World


7 Sacred Meals and Beyond


8 The Banquet as the Taste of Heaven


9 No Room for an F in Hospitality




6 Spirit and Suffering in Contemporary Pentecostalism: The Lukan Epic Continues

1 Introduction: A Twentieth-Century Epic of Lukan Proportions


2 Getting Started: Methodological Considerations


3 Pentecostal Challenge and Neglect


4 The Original Epic—Exegesis


5 The Epic Continues: Spirit and Suffering in Contemporary Pentecostalism




Part 3

Anabaptist Affinities

7 My Life as a Mennocostal: A Personal and Theological Narrative

1 Personal Narrative


2 Theological Narrative


3 Pentecostal and Mennonite Convergence


4 Outlook—Prophetic and Postmodernism




8 Spirit and Peace in Luke-Acts: Possibilities for Pentecostal/Anabaptist Dialogue

1 Methodology: A Literary Analysis


2 Spirit and Peace—Thematic Prominence in Luke-Acts


3 The Way of Peace: Prophetic Anticipation (Luke 1:79; 2:14; 2:29)


4 Jesus and the Way of Peace—Paradigmatic and Preparatory


5 Fulfillment of the Gospel of Peace


6 Contemporary Possibilities: Pentecostals and Anabaptists in Conversation




9 Reading Luke-Acts as a Mennocostal: Pentecostals, Mennonites, and the Prophethood of All Believers

1 Twentieth Century Fisticuffs: More or Less History?


2 Turning the Corner: Thank God for Roger Stronstad and John Howard Yoder


3 Luke Timothy Johnson: A Catholic Guide to Mennocostal life


4 Reading Luke-Acts as a Mennocostal


5 Disclaimer and Invitation




10 Lukan Politics Then and Now: A Pentecostal Vision for The Common Good

1 Food Distribution in Acts 11:27–30 and 12:20–25


2 Concerning Incarcerations and Executions in Acts 12 and Beyond


3 Pentecostal Politics, Lukan Ambiguity, and Prophetic Imagination


4 Observations from Springfield, Missouri




11 Manifest Lament: Pentecostals, Lukan Hospitality, and Indigenous Decolonization

1 Living Haunted Lives: Concerning Peace, Dust, Decolonization, and Hospitality


2 “Unsettling” Reflections of a Canadian Pentecostal




Part 4

Time for a U-Turn: The Rise of Reception History

12 Receiving Luke-Acts: The Rise of Reception History and a Call to Pentecostal Scholars

1 What is Reception History?


2 Receiving Luke-Acts in the Christian Tradition


3 Receiving Luke-Acts in the Pentecostal Tradition: Back to the Future




13 Nothing to Sneeze At: Receiving Acts 19:11–12 in the Canadian Pentecostal Tradition

1 Canadian Pentecostals and Their Handkerchiefs


2 Making Sense of Handkerchiefs


3 Pentecostals, Handkerchiefs, and Modern Hermeneutics




14 On Prodigals, Elder Brothers, and Fathers: The Reception of Luke 15:11–32 in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions

1 The Rise of Reception History


2 Receiving Luke 15 in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions


3 Conclusion: Preliminary Observations




15 A Century in the Making: Receiving the Samaritan Pentecost (Acts 8:4–25) in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions

1 Tongue-Tied Classical Pentecostals


2 Subsequence without Evidential Tongues


3 The “First” New Issue: Beliefs, Baptisms, and More Tongues


4 Hands Extended by another Latter Rain


5 Charismatic Cousins


6 The nar: Spiritual and Territorial Warfare


7 Toward Hospitality




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Index