Danijel Berković

Activity and dynamics of the Spirit in the Old testament

Ksenija Magda

The role of Holy Spirit in Romans 8

Stanko Jambrek

The Pentecostal Movement in Croatia 1907 - 2007

Thomas Sibley

The Promise and the Task

Davorin Peterlin

"Tabitha": The First Baptist Women's Association in Zagreb

Danijel Berković

The experience of life and life-giving is in biblical text of the Old testament essentially related to the life-giving Spirit of God. However, we are faced with this intriguing sequence at the beginning of the creative acts of God that the Spirit of God, which 'hovers' over the deep, after its hovering sequence, disapears from the scene, as wellas from any further actitivy in the creation itself.
Looking into the nature, activity and dynamics of the Spirit in the Old testament, the author wishes to re-search into this enigmatic disappearance of the Spirit from the primeval scene and the creation drama. In this, we are inclined to understand the Spirit's role and dynamics beyond an impersonal role and mere force activity of the Spirit. For that the author here looks through other interpretations of the Spirit's nature and role in the context of the creation. We are also looking into the grammatical and lexical context in establishing a more pro-active and more personal position and place of the Spirit in the creation process.
However, we are not clear, in spite of our other remarks and conclusions where and why has the Spirit of God 'gone' right after its hovering and immediately prior to actual divine creative act and intervention?

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Ksenija Magda

On account of methodological considerations (primarily from theory of space) the article points to the centrality of Rom 8 and particularly to the role of the Holy Spirit in it as the connecting factor in the two Pauline re-definitions of Jewish traditions: that of the role of the Law and that of the adoption of Israel as God's sons. The Holy Spirit is the key to a Christian life - both for "getting in" and "staying in".

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Stanko Jambrek

The first part of this work constitutes of a presentation of the beginning, development, organization and the institutionalization of the Pentecostal Movement in Croatia. After the spontanious beginning among the Germans in Slavonia at the beginning of the twentieth century, the movement has developed among Croats in Slavonia during the Second World War, while toward the end of the twentieth century it spread in whole Croatia. At the beginning of the twenty first century there are five denominations involved in the movement, among which the Evangelical Pentecostal Church is the greatest in number.
The second part deals with the basic characteristics of the pentecostal thought and practice: focus on Jesus Christ, baptism of the Holy Spirit as fulfillment with power for witnessing, evangelism that brings to conversion, encouragement for using the gifts of the Holy Spirit, expressing the dynamic relationship with God in the service and the awareness of the reality of Satan and the powers of evil.

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Thomas Sibley

To reflect the "glory of the Lord" is to experience a transformation into the likeness of Jesus. This essay is an exploration of how that is to be expressed in the life of the believer. The exploration includes a study of Exodus 34, John 1:14, and 2 Corinthians 3:18. Attention is given to the words and instruction of Jesus in the Gospel of John to his followers concerning their life in relationship to Him.

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Davorin Peterlin

The article investigates the beginning in 1937 of the Women's Association "Tabitha" within the Bpatist church of Zagreb and its later work.The key role in the founding of "Tabitha" was played by the Russian Lidija Kalmikova from Belgrade. The first president of "Tabitha" was Janja Baluban, and two other prominent Baptist women from Zagreb were local Russians Aleksandra Švast and Aleksandra Filipović. Other significant women of this period were Rozi Lovrec, Fani Lovrec, Katarina Gasteiger, Beti Bajs, Jozefina Vincetić, Marija Bistrović and Paula Dudović. The article addresses the structure and regulations of the Association, key events, activities, meetings, sermons, theological characteristics, visits to sister associations in the country in the period before and during the Second World War. The Association ceased with its activities and stopped functioning sometime after the end of the Second World War for no discernable reasons.
The study affords an insight into a significant aspect of existence and work of a minority religious community in Zagreb. It has made use of all available sources of information, such as written sources (meetings' minutes, letters, reports, articles), oral sources (recollections from interviews) and photographs.

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