The Evolution of a Pentecostal Scholar

Twenty Years in Luke-Acts

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This collection of previously published essays reveals a personal journey. Two decades ago, I could not have anticipated the twenty-first century theological and methodological shifts in biblical studies. In these essays, I encourage readers to observe my evolution by way of adventures in Luke-Acts. In so doing, I invite readers to reimagine a story not simply about the past, but rich with possibilities
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 Journeying with Peers: Review Essays
Chapter 1 Academic and Pentecostal: An Appreciation of Roger Stronstad
Chapter 2 Reimagining Luke-Acts: Amos Yong and the Biblical Foundation of Pentecostal Theology
Chapter 3 Craig Keener’s Acts, an Exegetical Encyclopedia in Four Volumes: An Almost Exhaustive and Exhausting Work
Chapter 4 For Profit or Delight? Richard Pervo’s Contributions to Lukan Studies
Part 2 Themes in Luke-Acts
Chapter 5 Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: A Theology of Hospitality in Luke-Acts
Chapter 6 Spirit and Suffering in Contemporary Pentecostalism: The Lukan Epic Continues
Part 3 Anabaptist Affinities
Chapter 7 My Life as a Mennocostal: A Personal and Theological Narrative
Chapter 8 Spirit and Peace in Luke-Acts: Possibilities for Pentecostal/Anabaptist Dialogue
Chapter 9 Reading Luke-Acts as a Mennocostal: Pentecostals, Mennonites, and the Prophethood of All Believers
Chapter 10 Lukan Politics Then and Now: A Pentecostal Vision for the Common Good
Chapter 11 Manifest Lament: Pentecostals, Lukan Hospitality, and Indigenous Decolonization
Part 4 Time for a U-Turn: The Rise of Reception History
Chapter 12 Receiving Luke-Acts: The Rise of Reception History and a Call to Pentecostal Scholars
Chapter 13 Nothing to Sneeze At: Receiving Acts 19:11–12 in the Canadian Pentecostal Tradition
Chapter 14 On Prodigals, Elder Brothers, and Fathers: The Reception of Luke 15:11–32 in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions
Chapter 15 A Century in the Making: Receiving the Samaritan Pentecost (Acts 8:4–25) in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions
Back Matter
Bibliography
Index of Names
Martin W. Mittelstadt (Ph.D., Marquette Universiy) is Professor of New Testament at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. On Luke-Acts, he previously published The Spirit and Suffering in Luke-Acts: Implications for a Pentecostal Pneumatology (T & T Clark, 2004) and Reading Luke-Acts in the Pentecostal Tradition (CPT Press, 2010). In addition to various professional articles and edited volumes, he co-edited Mennocostals: Pentecostal and Mennonite Stories of Convergence (Pickwick Press, 2020) with Brian K. Pipkin, and Canadian Pentecostal Reader: The First Generation of Pentecostal Voices in Canada (CPT Press, 2021) with Caleb Courtney. He is a past-president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (2021).
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
Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1
Journeying with Peers: Review Essays
1 Academic 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

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

5 Hermeneutical Debate

6 Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Roger Stronstad


2 Reimagining 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


3 Craig 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


4 For 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
5 Eat, 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


6 Spirit 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
7 My 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


8 Spirit 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


9 Reading 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


10 Lukan 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


11 Manifest 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
12 Receiving 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


13 Nothing 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


14 On 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


15 A 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

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