A Comparison of Glossolalia in Acts and Corinthians

Corinthians 7:29-31 and the Teaching of Continence in the Acts of Paul and Thecla

This study purposes to present the meaning of 1 Cor 7:29-31 in its original literary context and then to contrast that meaning with its application in The Acts of Paul and Thecla. This contrast is the basis for a critique of Dennis Ronald MacDonald's theory that The Acts of Paul preserve aspects of Pauline teaching which should be considered on a level with the Pastoral Epistles; MacDonald impl...

The measurement of regional cerebral blood flow during glossolalia: a preliminary SPECT study.

Glossolalia (or "speaking in tongues") is an unusual mental state that has great personal and religious meaning. Glossolalia is experienced as a normal and expected behavior in religious prayer groups in which the individual appears to be speaking in an incomprehensible language. This is the first functional neuroimaging study to demonstrate changes in cerebral activity during glossolalia. The ...

Glossolalia as regressive speech.

The Effect of Self-Assessment and Conference on EFL Students’ Production of Speech Acts and Politeness Markers: Alternatives on the Horizon?

Alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. These approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996). The present study tries to ex...

[AJPS 2/2 (1999), pp. 195-211] EVIDENTIAL GLOSSOLALIA AND THE DOCTRINE OF SUBSEQUENCE

If there is one teaching that appears to have the least support in the larger spiritual tradition, it would be the doctrine of glossolalia as the initial evidence of Spirit-baptism. Although more recent studies like McDonnell and Montague’s have given the Pentecostal-Charismatic experience a wider historical grounding, glossolalia particularly in the way that Pentecostals have understood it, re...