Clint Tibbs explores the Christian religious experience of the Pneuma given in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. First Corinthians 12 and 14 is often read as concerning spiritual gifts. This heading, however, does not make clear the scope of Paul's text because it highlights only one component of Paul's polemic, gifts, to the neglect of other and equally important terms. The experiences Paul mentions in these texts, speaking in a spirit, prophecy, and glossolalia, as well as the mention of spirits in three different places, suggest that Paul was actually writing about communicating with the spirit...
Clint Tibbs explores the Christian religious experience of the Pneuma given in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. First Corinthians 12 and 14 is often read as c...