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A Dynamic Reading of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

With 17 references to the divine πνεῦμα in Luke’s gospel and 52 in Acts, it is no wonder that Luke is designated as the “enthusiast in/for the Spirit” or that the Acts of the Apostles is called “the Acts of the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit has also been one of the most constantly debated subjects among the many issues concerning Luke and/or Acts. This study will re-visit the topic of the Holy...

before Jesus’ baptism, the period of Jesus from his Jordan baptism and the period of the Church from Pentecost to Jesus’ parousia (1970a: 24, 40–43).8 He argues here that Jesus’ experience of the Spirit at Jordan marks his sense of sonship (1970a: 29; 1975: 62–67)9 and thus signals his initiation into ‘the beginning of a new epoch in salvation-history—the beginning … of the End-time, the messianic age, the new covenant’ (1970a: 24).10 Likewise, in Acts, Pentecost is presented as the beginning of
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