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The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements

Author : Stanley M. Burgess
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310873355
Total Pages : 2625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements written by Stanley M. Burgess and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 2625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definitive History of the Spirit-Filled Church Encyclopedic coverage of: Activities of the Spirit over 2,000 years of church history in 60 countries and regions Outpourings at Topeka, Mukti Mission (India), Azusa Street, Duquesne University, and many other 20th-century locations Current movements among today’s 500 million-plus Pentecostal and charismatic Christians worldwide The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements sets modern, Spirit-filled Christianity in a context that spans two millennia and the entire Christian world. Like no other resource, this volume reveals in detail the full, sweeping legacy of Spirit-empowered movements that have touched hearts and lives both in modern America and across the centuries and continents: in medieval Europe, Finland in the 1700s, South India in the 1800s, Azusa Street at the turn of the 20th century--and much more, including ongoing moves of the Holy Spirit throughout the world today. One thousand entries provide the most extensive information available on Pentecostal, charismatic, and neocharismatic movements. The diverse topics covered include, as a small sample, glossolalia, black and Hispanic Pentecostalism, prophecy, the role of women, faith healing, music, sociology, missions, church growth, and different historic and contemporary revivals. With its unique international and historical perspective, this completely revised and expanded second edition of the acclaimed Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements offers features that no other reference of its kind approaches. Its extraordinary scope and detailed, up-to-date coverage make this the definitive resource on Pentecostal and charismatic denominations and movements both in North America and worldwide. Includes: Exhaustive coverage of Pentecostal and charismatic movements in 60 countries and regions--individual histories, cultural and theological aspects, and key figures and institutions. Statistical section with a wealth of current information on the growth of classical Pentecostalism as well as charismatic and neocharismatic movements. 1,000 articles. Over 500 photos and illustrations, maps, and timeline. Cross references, bibliographies, and indexes to people, places, and topics.

Pentecostals Doing Church

Author : Mathew Clark
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152753393X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Pentecostals Doing Church written by Mathew Clark and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostal-type Christians today make up close to 25% of the worldwide number of Christians of all creeds. On any given Sunday morning, they represent an even higher proportion of all Christian worshippers. They are people who intensively “do church” in its every aspect. This work investigates how they do it, from everyday fellowship through leadership to styles of worship. It balances established Western research into Pentecostalism with information and perspectives from the global stage, engaging a wide spectrum of theological and social disciplines. Analysing how Pentecostals have understood themselves, it explores the biblical, historical, practical and missiological material they have utilised to establish both their implicit and explicit notions of “church.” Aimed at both scholars and lay people, the style, presentation and scope of the material are especially relevant to thinking Christians of all vocations, and will also be useful for social scientists and historians intrigued by this recent Christian phenomenon.

Theology through Community

Author : Richard A. Pruitt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532664036
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Theology through Community written by Richard A. Pruitt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, renewal scholars have given considerable attention to the role of the believing community in the interpretive process. A broad consensus has emerged that a triad involving Scripture, the Spirit, and the believing community forms a cooperative relationship resulting in theological development, followed by commensurate action--identified in this research as theological creativity. In the context of this research, to be creative with theology is to take an existing theological assumption and broaden or adapt it to current circumstances, given the Spirit's evidential work and a consensual understanding of Scripture. But how does the community negotiate between Spirit and Scripture without subsuming either into its own predilections? For Luke, the first-century community of believers in Acts functions as an indispensable character in the formation of theological creativity. This work will demonstrate how Luke positions the community as a character in story form, between Spirit and Scripture, functioning as a bridge through which its testimony of the Spirit's evidential work and its application of Scripture interact. In order to illustrate this balancing act, we will use a modified configuration of the triadic notion: Spirit-Community-Scripture.

Pastoral Letter to Theo

Author : Paul Elbert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498275761
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Pastoral Letter to Theo written by Paul Elbert and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pastoral Letter to Theo addresses some of the fundamental concerns of recent research into biblical interpretation by Adele Berlin and Kenneth Archer. It also takes into account the communicative literary and rhetorical techniques that were prominent in the Greco-Roman world when the New Testament documents were composed. Elbert suggests that attention to levels of context, plot, repetition, and characterization or personification comprise a proper method for understanding a New Testament writer's original meaning and intent. Generally, the potentially groundbreaking thesis in much of Elbert's work is for a literary link between the "Spirit" language in Paul's letters and the later narrative of Luke-Acts. Specifically, A Pastoral Letter to Theo reflects heartfelt, pastoral concerns based on detailed contextual study of early Christianity and Christian experience. The book contextually examines in detail several passages pertaining to the ministry of women in missionary-minded early Christianity and concludes that this ministry was thought to be vital for the evangelistic enterprise.

Tongues and Trees

Author : Aaron Jason Swoboda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004397167
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Tongues and Trees written by Aaron Jason Swoboda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a Pentecostal ecological theology (ecotheology) by utilizing key pneumatological themes that emerge from the Pentecostal tradition. It examines the salient Pentecostal and Charismatic voices that have stimulated ecotheology in the Pentecostal tradition and situates them within the broader context of Christian ecumenical ecotheologies (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Ecofeminist). The author advances a novel approach to Pentecostal ecotheology through a pneumatology of the Spirit-baptized creation, the charismatic creational community, the holistic ecological Spirit, and the eschatological Spirit of ecological mission. Significantly, this book is the first substantive contribution to a Pentecostal pneumatological theology of creation with a particular focus on the Pentecostal community and its significance for the broader ecumenical community. Furthermore, it offers a fresh theological approach to imagining and sustaining earth-friendly practice in the twenty-first century Pentecostal church.

Interpretation of Tongues and Prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12-14, with a Pentecostal Hermeneutics

Author : Jeon Ahn Yongnan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004397175
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Interpretation of Tongues and Prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12-14, with a Pentecostal Hermeneutics by : Jeon Ahn Yongnan

Download or read book Interpretation of Tongues and Prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12-14, with a Pentecostal Hermeneutics written by Jeon Ahn Yongnan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing “spiritual experience” into the domain of biblical hermeneutics, this book will certainly stimulate current debates within this field, among both Pentecostals and Christians of other traditions. The author also applies a Pentecostal hermeneutical methodology to Paul’s teaching on tongues and prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12–14, opening possibilities to a Pentecostal pneumatology that tends instead to focus on the Lukan narrative. Paul’s texts are reconsidered not as doctrinal or situational documents but as dynamic communication within a living community.

Spirit Wind

Author : Peter L. H. Tie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532632746
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Spirit Wind written by Peter L. H. Tie and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Wind, a collaborative investigation into the works and person of the Holy Spirit, clearly and richly demonstrates diversity in theological perspectives but unity in the Christian faith. All theological discussions should aim at humbly respecting theological distinctiveness while sincerely encouraging theological conversations. Spirit Wind offers itself to achieve just that. Spirit Wind consists of nine chapters written by nine Chinese theologians, born in the Orient and trained in the West, who are now serving passionately as seminary professors in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, or the United States. Each author endeavors to explain the person and works of the Holy Spirit not only from Chinese standpoints but also from biblical, historical, and cultural/pastoral perspectives, and yet all chapters are theological in nature. No theologian claims to capture all matters about the Spirit, but every author of this book is captivated by the powerful presence, sovereign freedom, and beautiful operations of the Holy Spirit. You will be, too!

Pentecostals and Roman Catholics on Becoming a Christian

Author : Karen Murphy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004367861
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Pentecostals and Roman Catholics on Becoming a Christian written by Karen Murphy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pentecostals and Roman Catholics on Becoming a Christian, Dr. Karen Murphy explores the fifth round of the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue (1998-2006). Discussing Spirit-baptism, faith, conversion, experience, and discipleship, Dr. Murphy notes areas in which the Dialogue has evolved since its inception in 1972. She unpacks the commonalities that bond Catholics and Pentecostals and examines theological divergences and challenges to dialogue. While Catholics approach becoming a Christian from a sacramental perspective, most Pentecostals think of Christian initiation in non-sacramental, or conversionist, terms, a reality that fosters ongoing tensions between the two traditions. Dr. Murphy reveals how Catholics and Pentecostals seek to overcome this dichotomy by honoring spirituality and experience as integral to the ecumenical encounter.

Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy

Author : Ernest B. Gentile
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441215271
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy written by Ernest B. Gentile and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough yet practical study that shows how the biblical gift of prophecy can build up today's churches and individual Christians.

Kerygmatic Hermeneutics

Author : Swee Sum Lam
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666701440
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Kerygmatic Hermeneutics written by Swee Sum Lam and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerygmatic Hermeneutics takes a reader at once into a concrete apprehension of God in his scriptural truth through flowing in the Spirit. With the Spirit working with Scripture, a reader navigates in a to-ing and fro-ing between the general claims of God and the patterns of his actions in the world, and the embodiment of these general claims in the concrete particularity of contemporary living. This to-ing and fro-ing shapes an embodied witness to the world. In this account, an interpretation of scriptural truth is incomplete until Christ is proclaimed in the power of the Spirit to bring life. This brings the world into an encounter with God. Kerygmatic Hermeneutics is an account of how one may make theology in the Pentecostal-charismatic tradition. This constructive theological account also yields a practice of interpretation of Scripture in a community of faith. This formulation of kerygmatic theology and its hermeneutical practice opens theology to empirical enquiry and spiritual discernment in a post-Christian western world. This account is also existentially relevant for the global south and east, especially where readers find themselves having to speak apologetically into diverse religious and spiritual practices in daily encounters.

LGBTIQ + People and Pentecostals

Author : Marius Nel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3643962487
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book LGBTIQ + People and Pentecostals written by Marius Nel and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Divine Healing: The Formative Years: 1830–1890

Author : James Robinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621895866
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis Divine Healing: The Formative Years: 1830–1890 by : James Robinson

Download or read book Divine Healing: The Formative Years: 1830–1890 written by James Robinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine healing is commonly practiced today throughout Christendom and plays a significant part in the advance of Christianity in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Such wide acceptance of the doctrine within Protestantism did not come without hesitation or controversy. The prevailing view saw suffering as a divine chastening designed for growth in personal holiness, and something to be faced with submission and endurance. It was not until the nineteenth century that this understanding began to be seriously questioned. This book details those individuals and movements that proved radical enough in their theology and practice to play a part in overturning mainstream opinion on suffering. James Robinson opens up a treasury of largely unknown or forgotten material that extends our understanding of Victorian Christianity and the precursors to the Pentecostal revival that helped shape Christianity in the twentieth century.

Spirit, Scripture, and Theology, 2nd Edition

Author : Roger Stronstad
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532680317
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Spirit, Scripture, and Theology, 2nd Edition written by Roger Stronstad and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baptism in the Spirit

Author : William P. Atkinson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718840844
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Baptism in the Spirit written by William P. Atkinson and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a clear understanding of the doctrine of baptism in the Holy Spirit. In the Seventies, James Dunn's publication of Baptism in the Holy Spirit gave rise to a heated debate within Pentecostals' milieu. Atkinson brings his contribution to the discussion and undertakes the job of synthesizing, evaluating and reviewing the key elements of the debate, with respect to Luke-Acts. Atkinson concludes that Pentecostals are right: for Luke, receiving the Spirit was not the inception of new covenant life; itwas a powerful enabling for prophecy and miracles; for the church's outward mission and its internal life.

Church, Identity, and Change

Author : David A. Roozen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802828194
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Church, Identity, and Change written by David A. Roozen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-02 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since colonial days, religious work in American has happened through denominations. At least since the start of the twentieth century, these religious bodies consisted of a fairly tight, intra-denominationally connected system of congregations, regional judicatories, and national offices. This system was the product of more than two centuries of consolidation among Americanbs historic immigrant and indigenous churches. The vast majority of these structures are still in place, retain some semblance of internal coherence, have considerable social and religious significance, and will be with us for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, the stresses upon them today clearly indicate that they are entering an unsettled period of transition. The purpose of this book is to examine the national structures of eight diverse Protestant denominations as a part of that shift. The frame of this study is the relationship between the theological and organizational nature of national denominational structures as they adapt to the changing situation of the twenty-first century.

The Power of Saving Wisdom

Author : Cornelis Bennema
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556357370
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Saving Wisdom written by Cornelis Bennema and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelis Bennema explains the role of the Spirit in salvation according to John's Gospel against the background of intertestamental Jewish wisdom literature. He comes to the conclusion that the salvific function of the Spirit is that of a cognitive agent who, through the mediation of life-giving wisdom, creates and sustains a saving relationship between the believer and the Father and Son.

Faces of Renewal

Author : Paul Elbert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556352506
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Faces of Renewal written by Paul Elbert and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renewal has always been a concern of God's people. This present volume, a tribute to Pentecostal Bible scholar Stanley M. Horton, offers biblical and historical glimpses into the various facets of renewal throughout the history of the church. It further provides fresh insights into the outworkings of this renewal throughout the history of the church today. Essays examining the biblical themes of renewal include J. G. McConville's study of Renewal as Restoration in Jeremiah and J. Massyngberde Ford's inquiry into the Social and Political Implications of the Miraculous in Acts. Among the essays in Part 2, Historical Studies, Donald Dean Smeeton discusses how William Tyndale was a theologian of renewal. Church historian Richard Lovelace honors Professor Horton with an essay on Baptism in the Holy Spirit and the Evangelical Tradition. Part 3, Contemporary Studies, explores some of the effects of the modern charismatic renewal, including the appearance and growth of loving communities and the impact of renewal movements on society. These essays truly take a new tack towards understanding the various faces of spiritual renewal. They offer the specialist a challenge to see things in a new light, while they afford the non-specialist some practical models of renewal that can affect how he or she views Christian experience. Overall, the editor and respective authors submit this anniversary volume to their colleague and friend, Dr. Stanley M. Horton, and to its readers everywhere with the hope that these sixteen studies may make a useful international contribution to scholarship and that 'Faces of Renewal' may be found helpful to preachers, teachers, and students of God's Word.