The Evolution of a Pentecostal Scholar: Twenty Years in Luke-Acts: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, cartea 50

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1
Journeying with Peers: Review Essays
1Academic 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

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

5 Hermeneutical Debate

6 Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Roger Stronstad


2Reimagining 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


3Craig 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


4For 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
5Eat, 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


6Spirit 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
7My 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


8Spirit 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


9Reading 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


10Lukan 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


11Manifest 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
12Receiving 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


13Nothing 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


14On 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


15A 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


Bibliography

Index

This book is part Luke-Acts commentary and critique; part reception history; and part testimony. Or, as pentecostal scholars insist, all of the above at once. Walk with my friend Marty through the forest of his scholarship, which is in many ways his autobiography. Savor the honesty of his comments on the trail, which shine with a depth of appreciation and critique that only seasoned insiders can offer. Rest with him at the site where he witnesses to Luke’s ongoing power “both to crush and to save my faith,” and ponder whether that tension is yours as well. - Holly Beers Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Westmont College