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An icon depicting the Theotokos with the apostles filled with the Holy Spirit, indicated by "cloven tongues like as of fire" above their heads People speaking in tongues and in Portuguese during a Christian event in Brazil
The most well known of his eight previous books are Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995), Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (1996), After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism and Modern American History (2013), and Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America (2017).
Fifty days after the Resurrection, on the existing Jewish feast of Shavuot, while the disciples and many other followers of Jesus were gathered together to pray, the Holy Spirit descended upon them in the form of "cloven tongues of fire", with the sound of a rushing mighty wind, and they began to speak in languages that they did not know.
After a two-year hiatus during which he studied guitar, Cook returned to writing screenplays and narrative fiction. In summer 2011, he released the novellas Storm and Cloven Tongues of Fire, as well as the story collection Tiger Ridge – Three Stories and the bilingual (French-English) story "The Pickpocket". All those publications are e-books.
There is a "mighty rushing wind" (wind is a common symbol for the Holy Spirit) [30] [31] and "tongues as of fire" appear. [32] The gathered disciples were "filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance". [33]
The journey itself, though, is wildly original, featuring murderous cloven-hoofed barkeepers, a trolley ride through irradiated lands, a terrifying stay in a Prison-School for Boys, and the most ...
Christ is the true Light, [9] and at his transfiguration the fashion Christian of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering; [10] when the Holy Ghost descended upon the apostles, there appeared unto them cloven tongues of fire, and it sat upon each of them; [11] at the conversion of St Paul there shined round him a ...
The tongue is an important accessory organ in the digestive system. The tongue is used for crushing food against the hard palate, during mastication and manipulation of food for softening prior to swallowing. The epithelium on the tongue's upper, or dorsal surface is keratinised. Consequently, the tongue can grind against the hard palate ...