Theologosmog

When you have to smog up your writing with repetitive inside verbiage, you've probably run out of important things to say:

In Acts 2, the narrative recounting of Pentecost identifies the distinctive character of an eschatological (end-time) community created by the exalted Jesus through the Spirit's power. In addition, Peter's pentecostal proclamation engenders a fresh call to embodied memory and hope - through the story of Jesus and the witness of Israel's Scripture - in communal practices of resurrection. 

Joel B. Green & Michael Pasquarello III, Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching, 2003, p. 71.

Say what?

Comments

[pentamom]

Does he mean that the church got the ball rolling at Pentecost when Peter preached the resurrection and called them to baptism? Yeah, I thought so.

[Garrett]

Here is what he could have said:

"Acts 2 recounts the distinct new community that was formed as Peter's proclamation calls them to live in the power of the Resurrection."

But I guess that would cut the size of the book in half and not sound so intellectual.