Evolution of a Pentecostal Scholar

Martin W. Mittelstadt (Ph.D., Marquette Universiy) is Professor of New Testament at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. On Luke-Acts, he previously published The Spirit and Suffering in Luke-Acts: Implications for a Pentecostal Pneumatology (T & T Clark, 2004) and Reading Luke-Acts in the Pentecostal Tradition (CPT Press, 2010). In addition to various professional articles and edited volumes, he co-edited Mennocostals: Pentecostal and Mennonite Stories of Convergence (Pickwick Press, 2020) with Brian K. Pipkin, and Canadian Pentecostal Reader: The First Generation of Pentecostal Voices in Canada (CPT Press, 2021) with Caleb Courtney. He is a past-president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (2021).

This book is part Luke-Acts commentary and critique; part reception history; and part testimony. Or, as pentecostal scholars insist, all of the above at once. Walk with my friend Marty through the forest of his scholarship, which is in many ways his autobiography. Savor the honesty of his comments on the trail, which shine with a depth of appreciation and critique that only seasoned insiders can offer. Rest with him at the site where he witnesses to Luke’s ongoing power “both to crush and to save my faith,” and ponder whether that tension is yours as well. - Holly Beers Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Westmont College

• AcknowledgementsList of TablesAbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1Journeying with Peers: Review Essays1 Academic and Pentecostal: An Appreciation of Roger Stronstad1 Taking Ownership of a Pentecostal Heritage2 A Classic in the Making: The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke3 Enlarging the Reformation Vision4 The Life in the Spirit New Testament Commentary: A Challenge to Canonical Chronology5 Hermeneutical Debate6 Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Roger Stronstad2 Reimagining Luke-Acts: Amos Yong and the Biblical Foundation of Pentecostal Theology1 New Crossroad: Pentecost and Pentecostals after a Century2 Yong and the Context for Luke’s Pneumatological Imagination3 Luke, Pentecostals, and Yong: Conflicting Messages on Women4 New Territory: Performing Interreligious Hospitality5 Performing Inclusivity: Re-imagining Politics, (Dis)ability and (Im)migration6 Conclusion3 Craig Keener’s Acts: An Exegetical Encyclopedia in Four Volumes: An Almost Exhaustive and Exhausting Work1 Introduction to the Commentary2 Commentary Proper3 Luke and Acts vs. Luke-Acts4 Publication Oddities and Challenges5 Prospective Readership6 Final Remarks: Utter Admiration4 For Profit or Delight?: Richard Pervo’s Contributions to Lukan Studies1 The Emergence of Pervo—Foundations for a Career in Luke and Acts2 The Works at Hand3 Evaluation4 Implications for a Pentecostal ReadershipPart 2Themes in Luke-Acts5 Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: A Theology of Hospitality in Luke-Acts1 Hospitality in the Ancient World2 The New Testament and Hospitality3 Hospitality in Luke-Acts4 Pentecost: Enlarging the Vision5 Jesus on the Margins: Guest and Host6 The Church at the Margins: Jesus to the World7 Sacred Meals and Beyond8 The Banquet as the Taste of Heaven9 No Room for an F in Hospitality6 Spirit and Suffering in Contemporary Pentecostalism: The Lukan Epic Continues1 Introduction: A Twentieth-Century Epic of Lukan Proportions2 Getting Started: Methodological Considerations3 Pentecostal Challenge and Neglect4 The Original Epic—Exegesis5 The Epic Continues: Spirit and Suffering in Contemporary PentecostalismPart 3Anabaptist Affinities7 My Life as a Mennocostal: A Personal and Theological Narrative1 Personal Narrative2 Theological Narrative3 Pentecostal and Mennonite Convergence4 Outlook—Prophetic and Postmodernism8 Spirit and Peace in Luke-Acts: Possibilities for Pentecostal/Anabaptist Dialogue1 Methodology: A Literary Analysis2 Spirit and Peace—Thematic Prominence in Luke-Acts3 The Way of Peace: Prophetic Anticipation (Luke 1:79; 2:14; 2:29)4 Jesus and the Way of Peace—Paradigmatic and Preparatory5 Fulfillment of the Gospel of Peace6 Contemporary Possibilities: Pentecostals and Anabaptists in Conversation9 Reading Luke-Acts as a Mennocostal: Pentecostals, Mennonites, and the Prophethood of All Believers1 Twentieth Century Fisticuffs: More or Less History?2 Turning the Corner: Thank God for Roger Stronstad and John Howard Yoder3 Luke Timothy Johnson: A Catholic Guide to Mennocostal life4 Reading Luke-Acts as a Mennocostal5 Disclaimer and Invitation10 Lukan Politics Then and Now: A Pentecostal Vision for The Common Good1 Food Distribution in Acts 11:27–30 and 12:20–252 Concerning Incarcerations and Executions in Acts 12 and Beyond3 Pentecostal Politics, Lukan Ambiguity, and Prophetic Imagination4 Observations from Springfield, Missouri11 Manifest Lament: Pentecostals, Lukan Hospitality, and Indigenous Decolonization1 Living Haunted Lives: Concerning Peace, Dust, Decolonization, and Hospitality2 “Unsettling” Reflections of a Canadian PentecostalPart 4Time for a U-Turn: The Rise of Reception History12 Receiving Luke-Acts: The Rise of Reception History and a Call to Pentecostal Scholars1 What is Reception History?2 Receiving Luke-Acts in the Christian Tradition3 Receiving Luke-Acts in the Pentecostal Tradition: Back to the Future13 Nothing to Sneeze At: Receiving Acts 19:11–12 in the Canadian Pentecostal Tradition1 Canadian Pentecostals and Their Handkerchiefs2 Making Sense of Handkerchiefs3 Pentecostals, Handkerchiefs, and Modern Hermeneutics14 On Prodigals, Elder Brothers, and Fathers: The Reception of Luke 15:11–32 in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions1 The Rise of Reception History2 Receiving Luke 15 in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions3 Conclusion: Preliminary Observations15 A Century in the Making: Receiving the Samaritan Pentecost (Acts 8:4–25) in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions1 Tongue-Tied Classical Pentecostals2 Subsequence without Evidential Tongues3 The “First” New Issue: Beliefs, Baptisms, and More Tongues4 Hands Extended by another Latter Rain5 Charismatic Cousins6 The nar: Spiritual and Territorial Warfare7 Toward HospitalityBibliographyIndex