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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...

accomplish successfully their appointed tasks. In other words, the Spirit in Luke–Acts can be understood as the (typical) Jewish ‘Spirit of prophecy’. Thus, he distinguishes three developments of the concept of the Spirit in the early Church: (1) Pauline ‘soteriological’ pneumatology possibly influenced by 1QH and Wisdom literature, (2) that of the primitive community represented by Mark, Matthew and Q, which takes up the Jewish concept of the ‘Spirit of prophecy’, yet also includes miracles of healing
Pages 18–19
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