Loading…

Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12–14 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Showing the Spirit one of evangelicalism’s most respected New Testament scholars speaks to one of evangelicalism’s most troublesome issues. The scholar is D.A. Carson. The issue: spiritual gifts. Most of the book expounds the crucial passage, 1 Corinthians 12–14. But the concluding chapter integrates material from other portions of Scripture—especially the Book of Acts—so that the author’s...

for ordinary speech; Paul uses the verb λαλέω (laleō) in 14:19 in connection with speaking with the mind, which seems to embrace intelligible speech, so the verb cannot be restricted to unintelligible speech; Paul also uses this verb in 14:29 of prophetic speech, which like tongues is Spirit-prompted but unlike tongues is immediately intelligible; and the same verb is used in 14:34–35 of a woman asking questions, presumably in her normal language.26 On balance, then, the evidence favors the view
Page 83