South Africa.: Stellenbosch. University of Stellenbosch, 2006. — 67 p. English. Interactive menu.
[Assignment presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Divinity at the University of Stellenbosch.
Simon P. LeSieur (Ed). Supervisor: Dr. Robert R. Vosloo. December 2006].
I argue within the following pages for a synthesis of the contemporary Charismatic and Reformed positions on baptism in the Holy Spirit. I begin by surveying the Pre-Pentecost expectations of the Spirit’s outpouring and then unfold both the Charismatic and the Reformed views concerning Spirit baptism. In a final chapter,I propose a combined approach to Spirit baptism – spectacular everydayness -that takes seriously the Charismatic emphasis on the Spirit’s role of power as well as the centrality of community that forms the backbone of Reformed pneumatology.
Preface. Introduction. A renaissance of the Spirit.
Different voices in pneumatology.
Baptism in/of the Holy Spirit: matters of terminology.
Holding two voices in tension.
Pre-Pentecost expectations of the Spirit.A theology of the rûach.
The Spirit of Prophecy in the Old Testament.
The Spirit of Purification in the Old Testament.
Messianic expectations in the intertestamental period.
Preliminary conclusions.
A Charismatic approach to baptism in the Holy Spirit.The discussion surrounding Pentecostal claims.
A question of semantics.
The doctrines of subsequence and of the evidence of tongues.
The doctrine of tongues as initial evidence.
Pentecost as ushering in the empowering Spirit of Prophecy.
Multiple fillings - paving the way to an empowered witness.
A Reformed approach to baptism in the Holy Spirit. Welker on the gift of tongues.
Pentecost: the reversal of the curse of Babel.
The significance of Pentecost: murmurs of a new community.
Baptism into the community of the Spirit.
The new horizons of the gifts and fruit of the Spirit.
The community of the Spirit and spectacular everydayness. The Spirit in the early church and church Fathers.
The disappearance of gifts and the challenge of Montanists.
From orthodoxy to orthopraxis.
An everydaycommunity of the Spirit.
A spectacularempowerment for witness.
Grounding the spectacular in the everyday.
Toward spectacular everydayness.
Where to from here? The community and the world.
Afterword. Bibliography.
