Becoming Human: The Holy Spirit and the Rhetoric of Race

by Luke A. Powery

“From every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages” (Rev. 7:9), together. “Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs” (Acts 2:9–11), together. Baptists and Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans, Methodists and Catholics and Nazarenes, Church of God (Anderson) and Church of God (Cleveland) and Church of God in Christ, holy rollers and the frozen chosen, from east and west, north and south, meeting for fellowship at the wedding supper of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, drinking wine and eating bread. God functions with conjunctions and possesses a conjunctive imagination, not a disjunctive one.