The Missionary Nature of Tongues in the Book of Acts

This essay explores the way in which Luke presents tongues speech in Acts as the overcoming of crucial barriers to the forward movement of the Gospel in the Spirit's power to the nations. In contrast to the fairly recent turn to holistic missions among many Pentecostal scholars, I argue that gl...

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Main Author: Ireland, Jerry Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2019]
In: PentecoStudies
Year: 2019, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 200-223
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Acts of the Apostles / Glossolaly / Pentecostal churches / Mission (international law
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
HC New Testament
NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Holy Spirit
B Missionary
B Holism
B Glossolalia
B pnuematology
B Missions
B Tongues
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Summary:This essay explores the way in which Luke presents tongues speech in Acts as the overcoming of crucial barriers to the forward movement of the Gospel in the Spirit's power to the nations. In contrast to the fairly recent turn to holistic missions among many Pentecostal scholars, I argue that glossolalia represents strong support in Luke's second volume for the narrow sense of missions that characterized the apostolic church and the beginnings of the modern Pentecostal movement. This perspective is argued for on the basis of the literary structure of Acts and various hindrances regarding the disciples movement to the nations.
ISSN:1871-7691
Contains:Enthalten in: PentecoStudies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/pent.37954