{"id":20799,"date":"2009-01-25T18:21:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/youngmo-cho-spirit-and-kingdom-in-the-writings-of-luke-and-paul\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T18:21:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T18:21:34","slug":"youngmo-cho-spirit-and-kingdom-in-the-writings-of-luke-and-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/youngmo-cho-spirit-and-kingdom-in-the-writings-of-luke-and-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngmo Cho: Spirit and Kingdom in the Writings of Luke and Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/YCho-spirit-and-kingdom-in-the-writings-of-luke-and-paul.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Youngmo Cho, <em>Spirit and Kingdom in the Writings of Luke and Paul: An Attempt to Reconcile these Concepts <\/em>(Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2005), 254 pages, ISBN 9781842273166.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Youngmo Cho (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is currently an assistant professor of New Testament studies at Asia LIFE University, in South Korea. He has formerly been a pastor of an Assembly of God Church, as well as a missionary to the Philippines. He attempts in this book to explore the relation between the Spirit of God and the kingdom of God in the writings of Luke and Paul, which has been an uncharted territory up until now. The aim of the book is to depict the differences between Luke and Paul regarding their understandings, respectively, of the Spirit\u2019s work. Cho dialogs, mainly, with three positions regarding the relationship between Paul and Luke, which could be characterized as them being in <em>discontinuity<\/em> with each other, in <em>continuity<\/em> with each other, or a mediating position of <em>complimentarity<\/em> with each other. In outlining these three positions, Cho interacts with three scholars prevalently: R.P. Menzies (an advocate of the discontinuity position), J.D.G. Dunn (an advocate of the continuity position), and M.M.B. Turner (an advocate of the complimentarity position). Menzies advocates that there are staunch differences between the pneumatologies of Luke and Paul, while Dunn advances the idea that they are the same but differently expressed, and Turner argues that the two are different but complimentary to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Cho, however, diverges from all three of these generally recognized positions. He says that Paul\u2019s pneumatology adds something entirely new to the pneumatology of the early church, as attested to by the gospel of Luke. He asserts that Paul speaks of the kingdom of God in new terms, primarily by speaking of the Spirit in a more comprehensive manner than Luke did. In so doing, Paul communicates the teachings of Jesus in a different way, focusing upon the works of the Spirit. He argues that Dunn\u2019s position, which advocates the notion that the Spirit mediates the blessings of the kingdom in both Paul and Luke, is not precise enough to account for the texts in question. Instead, Cho argues that Paul develops the role of the Spirit more fully than Luke, arguing that the Spirit is the way that all people may <em>participate<\/em> in the kingdom presently. Cho maintains, however, that Luke asserts a more constricted view of the Spirit and the kingdom, one which only promotes the <em>proclamation<\/em> of the kingdom of God (as seen by, for example, tongues-speaking). Thus, Cho says that Paul taught that the Spirit is <em>the source<\/em> of life within the kingdom while Luke teaches that the Spirit merely <em>enables<\/em> proclamation of the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Following the introductory chapter, Cho investigates the Holy Spirit\u2019s role as the distiller of life-giving wisdom as seen in the intertestamental Jewish literature. He claims that such an understanding of the Spirit would directly influence both Paul\u2019s and Luke\u2019s presentation of the Spirit. In chapter three, Cho argues that for Paul, life in the Spirit is synonymous with Luke\u2019s kingdom of God. Chapter four assesses the characteristics of the kingdom, comparing how Luke and Paul express the functions of the Spirit. He argues that Luke perceives the Spirit to be limited to the kingdom blessings, whereas for Paul the Spirit <em>is<\/em> the blessing. In chapter five, Cho discusses what he perceives the role of the Spirit to be in Luke-Acts, and in the concluding chapter, six, he draws some implications from his study.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I heartily recommend this title for the readers of <em>The Pneuma Review<\/em>. This book will probably challenge some long-held assumptions by classic Pentecostals, but rich rewards are in store for those who explore it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by Bradford McCall<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Youngmo Cho, Spirit and Kingdom in the Writings of Luke and Paul: An Attempt to Reconcile these Concepts (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2005), 254 pages, ISBN 9781842273166. Youngmo Cho (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is currently an assistant professor of New Testament studies at Asia LIFE University, in South Korea. 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