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Community-Forming Power: The Socio-Ethical Role of the Spirit in Luke-Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

In past years the controversy over Luke’s concept of the Spirit has centered on the ethical dimension of his pneumatology. Community-Forming Power sets out to address the issue by assessing the Lukan writings in the light of evidence from Second Temple Judaism and by applying speech-act theory to prophetic utterances. Wenk argues that the Spirit’s role in prophecy cannot be limited to the content...

supposition that the Spirit’s primary effect is in nurturing the religious life of the early community, and (2) stresses the difference between Paul’s and the earliest church’s understandings of the Spirit.15 This assessment raises the question of the Spirit’s relationship to faith. According to Gunkel, ‘the reception of the Spirit is thus God’s witness to the existence of faith’.16 Faith in Luke-Acts, thereby, is not activated by the Spirit, but is a prerequisite for receiving it. On the other hand,
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