@inbook{859ece4fd6f24b7d9b715b848e761889,
title = "Introduction",
abstract = "This archetypal depiction of the divine, Pentecostal solution to the challenge posed by linguistic diversity to the spread of Christianity lies at the heart of this volume. How was the curse placed on the citizens of monolingual Babel, who had the temerity to attempt to build a tower that reached heaven (Gen. 11: 1–9), so that God made their speech mutually incomprehensible and scattered them to the winds, to be exorcised, or at least best coped with?",
author = "Ditchfield, {Simon Richard}",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1017/stc.2016.2",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781108419246",
volume = "53",
series = "Studies in Church History",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "53",
pages = "1--14",
editor = "Simon Ditchfield and Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer",
booktitle = "Translating Christianity",
address = "United States",
}