Community-Forming Power.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Religious and Ethical Dimensions of Lukan Pneumatology: A Survey of Modern Scholarship -- 2. The Thesis of This Study -- 3. Definition of Terms -- Part I: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPIRIT IN THE HEBREW OLD TESTAMENT AND IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE RELIGIOUS AND ETHICAL LIFE OF ISRAEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT -- 1. The Spirit as the Spirit of Creation and Completion -- 2. The Spirit of God and the Messiah -- 3. The Spirit of God and Israel's Leaders -- 4. The Spirit of God and the Judgment of God -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 3 THE PALESTINIAN LITERATURE -- 1. Wisdom, Spirit and Covenant in Ben Sira -- 2. Pseudo-Philo (Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum) -- 3. The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs -- 4. Various Texts -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 4 THE HELLENISTIC WRITINGS OF JUDAISM -- 1. Wisdom of Solomon -- 2. Philo -- 3. Joseph and Aseneth -- 4. Summary -- Chapter 5 COVENANT RENEWAL AND THE SPIRIT IN THE QUMRAN WRITINGS -- 1. The Two Spirits in 1QS 3-4 -- 2. The Spirit's Role upon Entering the Community: An Experience of Covenant Renewal -- 3. The Spirit Sustaining the Sectarian's Religious Life -- 4. The Spirit and the Messianic Traditions Based on Isaiah 11.1-4 -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 6 'WITHDRAWAL' OF THE SPIRIT AS A SIGN OF GOD'S 'WITHDRAWAL' FROM ISRAEL -- CONCLUSION: ON THE SPIRIT IN JUDAISM -- Part II: THE SPIRIT AND THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN LUKE-ACTS -- Chapter 7 THE TRANSFORMATIONAL AND CREATIVE FORCE OF PROPHETIC SPEECH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. When Prophecy No Longer Transforms the Audience: Historical-Sociological Insights on Prophetic Speech -- 3. When Prophecy Transforms Realities: Speech- Act Theory and the Holy Spirit -- 4. Summary and Conclusion.

Chapter 8 THE INFANCY NARRATIVES: THE RESTORATION ANTICIPATED -- 1. Luke 1.11-17: The Forerunner Announced -- 2. Luke 1.35: The Pneumatic Messiah Anticipated -- 3. Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 9 'A PEOPLE PREPARED FOR THE LORD' : THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN JOHN THE BAPTIST'S MINISTRY (LUKE 3.1-20) -- 1. John the Prophet -- 2. The Effects of John's Pneumatic Ministry of Transformation in Contrast to the Coming One's Ministry(Luke 3.15-17) -- 3. Summary and Implications -- Chapter 10 THE SPIRIT IN THE LIFE AND MINISTRY OF JESUS: SOURCE OF OBEDIENCE AND AGENCY FOR RENEWAL -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Significance of Jesus' Baptism (Luke 3.22) -- 3. The Obedient Messianic Son and the Spirit (Luke 4.1-13.14) -- 4. The Fulfilment of Liberation by the Anointed Messiah: A Premise for the Community's Ethos (Luke 4.16-30) -- 5. Luke 11.1-13: The Spirit and the Restoration of Human Relationships -- 6. Summary -- Chapter 11 PENTECOST AND JOEL 3.1-5: A HERMENEUTICAL KEY TO THE PNEUMATIC EXPERIENCE OF RESTORATION AND LIBERATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pentecost Anticipated: The Hope for Visible Manifestations and the Realization of God's Kingdom -- 3. Pentecost as the Continuation of Jesus' New Exodus -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 12 PENTECOST AND THE RENEWED COMMUNITY AS THE THIS-WORLDLY DIMENSION OF SALVATION AND COVENANT REALIZATION (ACTS 2.42-47) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literary Features that Suggest the Interrelationship between Acts 2.1-4 and vv. 42-47 -- 3. The Literary Function of Summaries -- 4. The Qumran Community's Self-Understanding as a 'Congregation of the Holy Spirit' and Acts 2.42-47 -- 5. The Spirit and the Summaries in Acts -- 6. The Renewed Community Anticipated in Joel 3.1-5 and the 'Year of the Lord's Favour' Proclaimed to the Poor -- 7. Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 13 RECONCILIATION AND THE SPIRIT IN ACTS -- 1. Introduction.

2. Community as the This-Worldly Dimension of Salvation and the Threat of Schism in the Early (Lukan) Church -- 3. The Spirit and the Preservation of Unity: Conflicting Claims to the Spirit in Acts 20.22-21.16 -- 4. The Spirit and the Realization of Salvation: A Growing Community's Struggle for Continuity and Discontinuity in its Identity -- 5. Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 14 CONCLUSION -- 1. Summary -- 2. Implications -- Bibliography -- Index of References -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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