Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: A Concert of Many Tongues Accounting for the Divine Spirit across the Biblical CanonThis double issue of Pneuma was birthed out of a moment of opportunity in the history of pentecostal biblical scholarship.Across the globe, a generation of pentecostal biblical scholars has generated new layers of scholarship and interpretation of the canonical texts.Over the past several decades, the authors who have contributed to this issue, among others, have provided thick strata of material upon which contemporary pentecostal scholarship of the Scriptures stands.This issue presents a summarizing concert of this material as it locates "The Spirit throughout the Canon: A Survey of Biblical Authors' Approaches to the Divine Spirit."These critical summaries offer up an assembly of biblical scholars from all over the world accounting for the presence and work of the Spirit from Genesis to the Apocalypse.The idea for this issue was birthed in conversation with Dr. Craig Keener, the F.M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, USA.He is a generationally significant contributor to New Testament scholarship.Keener's own massive corpus has provided resounding accounts of the presence of the Spirit in the Scriptures, which we do not have the space to recount here.1He conceptualized this issue and called the convocation of pentecostal biblical scholars from across the globe to participate in it.The authors who contributed to this issue are natives of Australia, Canada, Ghana, India, Korea, Nigeria, and the United States of America, and many of them have lived on multiple continents due to their educational and ministry journeys.This project thus represents many of the significant scholarly voices of pentecostal communities from across the world.We acknowledge that there are other important and helpful voices from across the world of pentecostal biblical scholarship that are not represented in this lofty project of providing constructive interpretations of the presence of the Spirit in the canon and the life of the world.The usual constraints of space and time hampered the inclusion of some of these other voices.
Source: Pneuma
Authors: L. William Oliverio, Nimi Wariboko
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4200036239