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Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) is a common spiritual phenomenon in the Pentecostal and Charismatic streams of the Christian church. Such Christians believe that when they speak in tongues they are communicating with God in a language that they have never learned—spiritual prayer language given to them by the Holy Spirit. This innovative volume seeks to enhance our understanding and...

2 Tim. 4:11) he might be expected to know of Paul’s distinction between tongues and other related forms of inspired speech.18 Beyond this we can only note Luke’s rather surprising silence. He indicates no knowledge of glossolalia as a phenomenon occurring after initial reception of the Spirit: there is nothing in Acts to match the congregational phenomenon of tongues, described by Paul in 1 Corinthians 12–14, or the private practice of it anticipated there. But his account of the expansion of Christianity
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