“Anointing,” “Charisms,” & “Baptism of the Holy Spirit”

• John Joy (Director of Religious Education for St. Patrick’s Parish in Ann Arbor, MI), “The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Charismatic Renewal: Theological Interpretation of the Experience” (Academia.com; originally published in Antiophon, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2005, pp. 141-65) [Theological Critique of inappropriate application of the phrase “Baptism of the Holy Spirit” outside of historical Pentecost.]
• Colin B. Donovan, STL, “The Toronto Blessing: A Little Treatise” (EWTN Library, 1998, 2000) – treats of charismatic graces (in general), discernment, Toronto Blessing (in particular), History of this ‘anointing’: Reinhard Bonnke to Rodney Howard-Browne to Randy Clark to John Arnott to Marc Dupont, Eleanor Mumford, Steve Hill, John Kilpatrick, etc.
• Andrew Strom (evangelical author and evangelist from New Zealand) remarks, in a disturbing 2010 video, on Rodney Howard Brown “imparting a new anoiting” to Oral Roberts of the Word of Faith movement, an anointing received also by Randy Clark who brought it into the Vineyard movement and bizarre “Toronto Blessing” movement in 1994.
• Adam Blai (Peritus of demonology and auxillary member of the International Association of Exorcists), in a presentation at the 2015 “Ignited By Truth Conference,” warns against the practice of non-ordained laity laying hands on others in prayer as a dangerous opening to the occult.
• Kenneth Berding, “Confusing Word and Concept in ‘Spiritual Gifts’: Have We Forgotten James Barr’s Exhortations?” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 43, No. 1 (March 2000), 37-51.
• Hughson Ong, “Is ‘Spiritual Gift(s)’ a Linguistically Fallacious Term? A Lexical Study of Χάρισμα, Πνευματικός, and Πνεῦμα,” The Expository Times, Vol. 125, No. 12 (2015), 583-592. [Scroll down linked page.]
• Hughson Ong, “Reconsidering the Meaning and Translation of Πνευματικός and Πνεῦμα in the Discourse Context of 1 Corinthians 12-14” in Modeling Biblical Language, ed. Stanley E. Porter, et al. (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2016), ch. 10 (pp. 309-338). [Scroll down linked page.]
• Robert T. Jones III (evangelical Bible scholar and pastor), “1 Cor. 12:31 and Our Spiritual Gifts” (“Insights” from New Testament Greek, October 13, 2012) – Did Paul mean for the Corinthians to “earnestly desire the higher gifts”?
• Robert T. Jones III, “Zeloute” [ζηλοῦτε] in 1 Cor 12:31“
• Review of Francis Martin, Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Reflections on a Contemporary Grace in the Light of the Catholic Tradition (Petersham, Massachusetts: St. Bede’s Publications, 1998), forthcoming.