“Wadholm’s book thus reminds us through the testimony of the Former Prophets, spiritual growth – at least within Pentecostal spirituality – comprises growth in charismatic power received through Spirit baptism. This growth is growth into the charismatic fullness of Christ Which requires— occasional yet periodic on-the-edge events of what we can no longer manage; through the humanly unmanageable manifest presence of God.”
“Where is the Spirit of Elijah?”
Now that I’m done with that past “dissertation era,” and have at last completed most of all those past outstanding book reviews, I can catch up reading books long on my reading list! Though I am also about to start filling out a proposal to see the dissertation transformed into— a monograph!
So, over these past few days I inspiringly ploughed through Rick Wadholm, Jr’s published dissertation, A Theology of the Spirit in the Former Prophets: A Pentecostal Perspective (CPT Press, 2018)!
A beautiful OT study on the Spirit!
Let me share one thing and I think the main vital thing from his book. Wadholm’s work seems to suggest above all else, that a pivotal Old Testament imagery/motif implicitly funding the Pentecostal imagination, experience and desire for increasing spiritual fullness through Spirit baptism seems to be—
The 2 Kings ch. 2 Elijah/Elisha story;
Portraying…
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