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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...

The aim of Baptism in the Holy Spirit was to explore what the New Testament writers understood by that phrase—or rather by the verbal phrase used in the Gospels, Acts and Paul, ‘baptize(d) in the (Holy) Spirit. This particular focus was occasioned by the emphasis placed on the phrase, and the event or experience which it signified, in classic Pentecostalism and in the neo-Pentecostal movement or charismatic renewal which in the 1960s was gaining strength (and catching
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