An Exegetical Glimpse into the Pauline Usage of Charismata and Oikodomen in 1 Corinthians 12:1-7: A solution for Ecclesiastical Disunity in 21st Century
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[5] G. Lindsay, An overview of Spiritual Gifts (Kaduna: Evangel Press, 2001), 15.
[6]Samson A Fatokun, Church in the Apostolic Age (Nigeria: Erodite Publications),144.
[7] Ibid.
[8] D. A Carson, Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12-14 (Homebush West: Lancers, 1988), 20.
[9] Gordon Fee, “Gifts of the Holy Spirit,” in Dictionary of Paul and his Letters: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship, eds., Gerald F Hawthorne et al (England: Intervarsity Press, 1993),342-345.
[10]H. H. Esser, “Grace” eds. C. Brown, NIV Dictionary of New Testament Theology (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 1986), 116
[11] Adeyanju James, opp cit. see P.G Steve, Are the Gifts of the Holy Spirit meant for Today’s church? (Chicago: Moody Press, 2006). Though Steve could not ascertain “what is more important” in his opinion. L. Graham is also of the same opinion.
[12]S.B. Ferguson, The Holy Spirit: Contours of Christian Theology (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1996), 222.
[13] J.I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit (Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 1996), 10.
[14] Enns Paul, The Moody Handbook of Theology (Chicago: Moody Press, 1989), 176.
[15] Leon Morris, First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: An Introduction and Commentary (London: Tyndale Press, 1966), 25-26.
[16] Gordon Fee, The First Epistles to the Corinthians. The New International Commentary on the NT (Grand Rapids: WB Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1987), 626.
[17] Pius Hau, Exposition of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a in American Journal of Theology. vol.12 issue 6, (July 2011), 6.
[18] Abogunrin, S.O. The First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians: African Bible Commentaries (Nigeria: Daystar Press, 1991), 125.
[19] S.J. Hafemann, “Letters to the Corinthians” in Hawthorne, et al, eds., Dictionary of Paul and his Letters: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship, 174.
[20] Ralph Martins, The Spirit and the Congregation: Studies in 1 Cor. 12-15 (MI: Eerdmans,1984),10.
[21] Ibid.
[22] Martins, The Spirit and the Congregation: Studies in 1 Cor. 12-15, 20.
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About the Author: Godwin O. Adeboye, BA (First class honors-University of Ibadan, Nigeria), BA Th (ECWA Theological Seminary, Igbaja), MA (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), served as the pioneering Director of Research and Innovations at ECWA Theological Seminary, Igbaja, Nigeria. He currently serves as the African Regional Coordinator at Shepherd's Academy, Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, UK, where he is also conducting his doctoral research as a Langham scholar. In collaboration with the University of Pretoria, his research seeks to provide a theological model for the survival of Christian missions in Islamic political contexts. He is the author of Can a Christian Be Cursed?: An African Evangelical Response to the Problem of Curses (Langham, 2023).
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