This post is part of a periodic series on “Current Pentecostal Scholarship.”
In today’s video, I interview theologian Dr. Chris Green from Pentecostal Theological Seminary (Tennessee). I ask him about how Pentecostals historically and in current scholarship have thought about the Lord’s Supper and what implications this has for when we participate in communion today.
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Andrew K. Gabriel, Ph.D., is the author of Simply Spirit-Filled: Experiencing God in the Presence and Power of the Holy Spirit (forthcoming) as well as three academic books, including The Lord is the Spirit. He is a theology professor at Horizon College and Seminary and serves on the Theological Study Commission for the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. You can follow him on Facebook or on Twitter.
Super job! This was nice and clear. Do this level of thing weekly with every aspect of Pentecostal spirituality! We need to intensify and simplify the communication of the great work our academics are doing in affirming Pentecostal theology and spirituality.
I appreciate the work that you are doing Dr. Gabriel. The theological discussions are important. Grat job.
Hi Andrew,
I just wanted to speak to one comment on differences in Catholic understanding that Dr. Green made: At around the 4:00min mark, in responding to you question, Dr. Green says that Catholics understand/believe (at least in part) that it is “the right-fulness of the priest that makes the sacrament a sacrament”. I’m not an expert, but I do know that Catholics (at least in doctrine) do not believe that the efficacy of the sacrament is dependant on the “right-fulness” of the priest. They actually hold so firmly to the notion that sacraments are actions of God that they would say the efficacy of the sacrament is not dependant on the right-fulness of the priest at all but are efficacious solely because of Christ’s work – “ex opere operato Christi.” None the less, as someone who was raised in the PAOC and who has a some sacramental convictions, I really appreciate Dr. Green and his work!
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