Waiting on the Holy Spirit (Acts 1.4): Extending a Metaphor to Biblical Interpretation

This article seeks to extend the Pentecostal practice of ‘waiting on the Holy Spirit’ to biblical interpretation: to wait on the Spirit is to await the filling of the Spirit to illumine Scripture’s witness to God’s plan of salvation in a way impossible otherwise. Support for this idea is retrieved f...

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Main Author: Wall, Robert W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Journal of pentecostal theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-53
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
Further subjects:B Holy Spirit Scripture intertextuality waiting hermeneutics
B Bible. Apostelgeschichte 1,4
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Summary:This article seeks to extend the Pentecostal practice of ‘waiting on the Holy Spirit’ to biblical interpretation: to wait on the Spirit is to await the filling of the Spirit to illumine Scripture’s witness to God’s plan of salvation in a way impossible otherwise. Support for this idea is retrieved from a study of the risen Jesus’ parting instruction for his apostles to await the Spirit’s baptism in Jerusalem (Acts 1.4), which considers Luke’s narration of this event in its compositional and canonical settings.
ISSN:1745-5251
Contains:In: Journal of pentecostal theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02201007