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Baptism in the Holy Spirit: A Re-Examination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Spirit in Relation to Pentecostalism Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Baptism in the Holy Spirit James D. G. Dunn argues that water baptism is only one element in the New Testament pattern of conversion and initiation. The gift of the Spirit, he believes, is the central element. For the writers of the New Testament, only those who had received the Holy Spirit could be called Christians. For them, the reception of the Spirit was a very definite and often very...

context of the Fourth Gospel and the latter in the context of Luke’s thought, and only then can we correlate the individual texts themselves. John we leave aside for the time being; to clarify Luke’s understanding of Pentecost is our present task. When we look at Pentecost in the context of Luke—Acts it becomes evident that Pentecostal and Catholic alike have again missed the principal significance of the story. For once again we stand at a watershed in salvation-history, the beginning of the new
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