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The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke: Trajectories from the Old Testament to Luke-Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the meaning of the Holy Spirit’s activity in Luke-Acts, and what are its implications for today? Roger Stronstad offers a cogent and thought-provoking study of Luke as a charismatic theologian whose understanding of the Spirit was shaped wholly by his understanding of Jesus and the nature of the early church. Stronstad locates Luke’s pneumatology in the historical background of Judaism...

subsequent ministry are consistent with the prophetic vocation. However, the people not only recognized him as a prophet (20:6), but, stirred by his preaching, also wondered “whether he was the Christ” (3:15). Contemporary Judaism identified the prophetic and messianic vocation. The Qumran literature, for example, witnesses to the widespread popularity of this identification of the prophetic and messianic ministries.8 This identification of the prophetic and messianic functions in John’s ministry
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