In three carefully researched volumes, this ground-breaking study examines the gift of tongues through two thousand years of church history. Starting in the present and working back in time, these volumes consider (1) the modern redefinition of tongues as a private prayer language; (2) the churchs perennial understanding of tongues as ordinary human languages; and (3) the Corinthian tongues, which, in light of Jewish liturgical tradition, turn out to have been a Semitic liturgical language requiring bilingual interpreters. This second volume tracks the perception and practice of tongues back through the first eighteen hundred years of church history, demonstrating that tongue-speaking was always active but puzzlingly different from todays glossolalia. From Pope Benedict XIVs detailed treatise in the 1700s, it works back through long-forgotten scholastic and patristic debates to the earliest Christian writers such as Irenaeus. No other resource on the subject approaches the depth and scope of the present volume.
- | Author: Philip E. Blosser, Charles A. Sullivan
- | Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- | Publication Date: Aug 21, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 166673778X
- | ISBN-13: 9781666737783
