Spirit baptism : the Pentecostal experience in theological focus /
by David Perry.
- xi, 263 páginas ; 24 centímetros.
- Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; 26 .
How Did We Get Here? -- Towards a Working Definition of Spirit Baptism -- Spirit Baptism in Pentecostal Focus -- The Need for Further Reflection -- Experience and Meaning -- Pentecostal Philosophy and Worldview -- Experience -- Bernard Lonergan's Functions of Meaning -- Concluding Remarks -- Spirit Baptism and Cognitive Meaning -- The Cognitive Function of Meaning Revisited -- What has Commonly Been Asserted about Pentecostal Spirit Baptism? -- Identifying the Core Assertions about Spirit Baptism -- Spirit Baptism is an Experience of the Holy Spirit -- Concluding Remarks -- Spirit Baptism and Effective Meaning -- The Effective Function of Meaning Revisited -- Spirit Baptism and Eschatology -- Spirit Baptism as a Catalyst for Evangelism and Missions -- Shifting Eschatology -- Spirit Baptism and Social Action -- Changes in Effective Meaning -- The Effective Function of Spirit Baptism Today -- Concluding Remarks -- Spirit Baptism and Constitutive Meaning -- The Constitutive Function of Meaning Revisited -- The Constitutive Function of Pentecostal Spirit Baptism -- Concrete Ecclesiology and the Challenge of Constitutive Meaning -- A Way Forward -- Concluding Remarks -- Spirit Baptism and Communicative Meaning -- The Communicative Function of Meaning Revisited -- Glossolalia as a Communication of Elemental Meaning -- The Communication of the Doctrine of Spirit Baptism -- A Suggested Rewording of the Doctrine -- Concluding Remarks.