Power from on High: The Spirit of Israel's Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts

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Power from an High: The Spirit in Israel's Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts, by Max Turner. journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 9. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. Pp. 511. E30.00/$45.00 (paper).

This engaging study is a culmination of the nearly twenty years that Max Turner, Senior Lecturer in New Testament at London Bible College, has devoted to Lukan pneumatology. Picking up the main thrust of his own dissertation (1980), but now in light of the debate in the intervening years, Turner is a sure guide through both the pneumatological texts in Luke-Acts and the massive secondary literature. His primary conclusions take a somewhat middle road in the …