Completion of Major Revisions to “Spirit-baptism & Prophetic Imagination” Series

Recently, I finally finished some thorough revisions to the prologue and three parts currently comprising the “Spirit-baptism & Prophetic Imagination” series:

Prologue to Spirit-Baptism and the Prophetic Imagination

Part 1: The revolutionary power of Pentecostal spirituality

Part 2: The decline of Pentecostalism as a revival movement

Part 3: A vision for true Pentecostal revival

Part 4: The Prophetic  Purpose of Spirit-baptism

I undertook this revisioning for three reasons.

First, there were a number of grammatical errors and stylistic flaws rampant througout the series.  Much of the writing was therefore unncessarisly difficult to follow or read, especially de to far too many long and complex sentences.  I had thus sought to simplify quite a bit of the content, specifically, the sentence structures. In the process of doing so however, I was forced at times to further clarify thoughts and concepts.  I also needed to at time re-arrange some of the materials within the postings.  I also found it needful to add some new material within the third part of the series (“A vision for true Pentecostal revival) in the section dealing with similarities Pentecostalism may share with certain older traditions.

The second reason the revisioning stemmed from the fact that this series currently exists as a set of  keynote Perichorus manifesto essays.

Finally, with the completion of this revisioning of the series, I will now be able to more effectively tackle at some point (hopefully within the very near future!), the posting of the fourth and final part of the series, which will centre on the prophetic purpose of the Spirit-baptism.  A preview to some of the concepts which will be discussed in the final part of the series is presently available at the end of the prologue  (Prologue to Spirit-Baptism and the Prophetic Imagination).

The fourth and final part will serve to not only complete the series as a fitting climax, but will also provide the original purpose of the series.  This original purpose was to substantiate the Pentecostal doctrine of Spirit-baptism, through several variables quite lacking in much of the literature that has been developed thus far in the world of Pentecostal scholarship.  Again, I have briefly introduced some of these variables in the prologue of this series.