Pentecostal theology in the twenty-first century

Pneuma

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 3-19

  Thomas, John Christopher ^a  

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EID: 84863393771     PISSN: 02720965     EISSN: 15700747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157007498X00027     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. In support of this analysis, see the Society of Pentecostal Studies presidential address of Cheryl Bridges Johns, The Adolescence of Pentecostalism: In Search of a Legitimate Sectarian Identity," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 17 (spring 1995): 3-17.
2. Rickie D. Moore, John Christopher Thomas, Steven J. Land, "Editorial," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 1 (October 1992): 3.
3. Moore, Thomas, and Land, "Editorial," 3.
4. Vinson Synan, The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1971).
5. Moore, Thomas, and Land, "Editorial," 3-4.
6. Ronald A. N. Kydd, Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1984).
7. Roger Stronstad, The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1984).
8. Harold D. Hunter, Spirit Baptism: A Pentecostal Alternative (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983).
9. For these designations see Steven J. Land, Pentecostal Spirituality: A Passion for the Kingdom (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), 41-42.
10. On orthopathos cf. Samuel Solivan, The Spirit, Pathos and Liberation: Toward an Hispanic Pentecostal Theology (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, forthcoming).
11. For this terminology I am indebted to my colleague Jackie Johns. For a helpful analysis of Pentecostalism's place in a postmodern world, see Jackie D. Johns, "Pentecostausm and the Postmodern Worldview, Journal of Pentecostal Theology 7 (October 1995): 73-96.
12. Cf. esp. the work of Cheryl Bridges Johns, "Meeting God in the Margins: Ministry Among Modernity s Refugees," Henry Luce Fellows in Theology Presentation, 1997.
13. See especially the helpful work of R.W. Wall and E.E. Lemcio, eds., The New Testament as Canon: A Reader in Canonical Criticism (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992).
14. On this method cf. U. Luz, Matthew in History (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1994).
15. Cf. the provocative work of A. Callahan, Embassy of Onesimus: The Letter of Paul to Philemon (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity, 1997).
16. See especially the promising work of Frank D. Macchia, "The Church as an End-time Missionary Fellowship of the Spirit: A Pentecostal Perspective on the Significance of Pneumatology for Ecclesiology" (paper presented to the Pentecostal/National Council of Churches Dialogue, Oakland, CA, 12 March 1997).
17. Ronald W. Dayton, The Theological Roots of Pentecostalism (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991).
18. Land, Pentecostal Spirituality.
19. John Christopher Thomas, Footwashing in John 13 and the Johannine Community (Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1991).
20. Frank D. Macchia, "Is Footwashing the Neglected Sacrament? A Theological Response to John Christopher Thomas," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 19 (fall 1997): 239-249.
21. The practice of footwashing in early Pentecostal circles was remarkably widespread. For the practice of footwashing at Azusa Street see D.T. Irvin, "'Drawing All Together in One Bond of Love': The Ecumenical Vision of William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 6 (April 1995): 35 esp. n. 23. On the other end of the continent the emerging Church of God practiced footwashing from the beginning. For Richard Spurling, one of the founders of the Christian Union, the practice of footwashing predates his involvement with the Christian Union as footwashing was regularly practiced at the Holly Springs Baptist Church where he was a member. In addition, A.J. Tomlinson was practicing footwashing as early as 25 March 1901. See his diary entry for this detail. Still another stream of the tradition is represented by C.H. Mason who appears to have practiced footwashing from early on as well. I am indebted to David Roebuck for the information on Spurling and to Dale Irvin for the information on Mason.
22. Frank D. Macchia, "Tongues as a Sign: Towards a Sacramental Understanding of the Pentecostal Experience," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 15 (spring 1993): 61-76.
23. John Christopher Thomas, "The Devil, Disease, and Deliverance: James 5:14-16," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 2 (April 1993): 34-40.
24. Land, Pentecostal Spirituality, 98.