Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

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Chapter 16: Edward Irving, Morning Star of Renewal 1. Other interesting prophetic groups keep appearing, such as the Kansas City Fellowship Prophets, 1983 (see David Pytches, Some Said It Thundered [Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1991] and Bickle, Growing); the Network of Prophetic Ministries founded by Bill Hamon in 1988 (Prophetic Ministries News, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.); the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship "Blessing," 1993 (see Guy Chevreau, Catch the Fire [London: Marshall Pickering, 1994] and John Arnott, The Father's Blessing [Orlando: Creation House, 1995]); MorningStar Publica tions, Charlotte, N.C., Rick Joyner, ed. 2. Arnold Dallimore, The Life of Edward Irving (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1983), p. ix. 3. H. C. Whitley, Blinded Eagle (London: SCM, 1955), p. 17. 4. Ibid., p. 20. 5. Christenson, Message, p. 33. 6. George H. Williams and Edith Waldvo gel, "A History of Speaking in Tongues and Related Gifts," Hamilton, ed., Charismatic Movement, p. 85. 7. D. D. Bundy, "Irving, Edward," p. 471. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements by Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander. Copyright© 1988 by Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. 8. For a most interesting account of why there was such spiritual receptivity at this time, see Gordon Strachan, "Theological and Cul tural Origins of the Nineteenth Century Pente costal Movement," Paul Elbert, ed., Essays on Apostolic Themes: Studies in Honor of Howard M. Ervin (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1985), p. 144ff. Apparently the strong "double Calvinism" doctrine that had robbed the peo ple of expectant faith had been replaced by a fresh understanding of the "free grace and love" of God in Christ. 9. Bundy, "Irving, Edward," p. 471. 10. Time does not permit me to investigate this subject here, tempting as it is. Suffice it to say that the average minister today would find himself hard pressed to refute Irving's position that Christ assumed our human nature as the Son of Man and yet lived a sinless life through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Perhaps the most helpful book on the subject is Gordon Strachan's The Pentecostal Theology ofEdward 403.

in Early Christianity, pp. 314---316; Burgess, Spirit and the Church, p. 50; Robeck, "Origen," pp. 19-23. 28. Geoffrey W. Bromiley, "The Charismata in Christian History," Theology, News & Notes (March 1974), p. 3. 29. Henry Wace and William C. Percy, eds., A Dictionary of Christian Biography (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994 reprint), p. 739. 30. Clifford Hill, Prophecy, p. 262. 31. Paul Tillich, A History of Christian Thought (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), p. 41. 32. Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity, Vol. I (New York: Harper & Row, 1953), p. 134. 33. James L. Ash, for instance, argues persuasively against Harnack's position. "The Decline of Ecstatic Prophecy in the Early Church," Theological Studies 36:2 (June 1976), pp. 227-252. 34. Actually the teachers could also have taught on the nature and use of spiritual gifts (as well as other subjects), and this would have brought balance. 35. Brunner, Misunderstanding, p. 59. 36. Pytches, Prophecy, p. 149. 37. Brunner, Misunderstanding, p. 81. 38. Ash, "Decline of Ecstatic Prophecy," pp. 227, 249. 39. See endnote 11. I was surprised, reading Wagner's book, how closely my own sugges tions parallel his characteristics of "The New Apostolic Churches." 40. See Gentile, Worship God! 41. J. E. C. Welldon, The Revelation of the Holy Spirit (London: Macmillan, 1902), p. 296. 42. Deere, Surprised by the Power of the Spirit, p. 73. His footnote says that both David Hill and David Aune, in their recent scholarly studies of New Testament prophecy, "conclude that it was the leadership of the church that abandoned the gift of prophecy rather than God withdrawing the gift" (p. 273, #16). 43. Wilson, "Early Israelite Prophecy," p. 8. 44. Clifford Hill, Prophecy, p. 262. 45. James D. G. Dunn, Unity and Diversity in the New Testament (Philadelphia: Trinity, 1990, 2nd ed.), p. 351. 46. Bruce, Spreading Flame, p. 217.