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All Blog Posts With Tag: Glossolalia
How did Paul reconcile his Jewish heritage with the Gentile churches he planted around the Mediterranean sea? Ernst Käsemann (the beloved disciple of Rudolf Bultmann) wrote an outstanding essay titled Cry For Liberty in the Church's Worship, where he argues from Romans 8:26-27 that Paul dialectically embraced his Jewish-Christian heritage […]
Karl Barth on the Pentecost: Jesus is Standing in the Midst (March 22, 2017)
In the early 1920's, Karl Barth preached a sermon on Pentecost to his tiny church in Safenwil, Switzerland. In this sermon, "Come, Creator Spirit!", Barth says that Christians today have much more in common with the strangers and immigrants who came together at Pentecost, than to the Apostles; these immigrants […]
Jürgen Moltmann on the Speaking in Tongues (April 18, 2015)
My eyes were first open to Christ Jesus in a Pentecostal church when I was five years old in southern Michigan. I remember being afraid of drowning during the baptismal immersion. I remember the waters were as cold as ice, and then afterwards, violently trembling in the wintry cold basement of […]