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Christ-Centered
(Hardcover)
Robert P. Menzies; Foreword by George O Wood
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Emmett contributes to missional pentecostal historiography through
bringing a pre-eminent figure in early British Pentecostalism into
the limelight. He shows how Pentecostalism in Belgian Congo was
pioneered by W.F.P. Burton alongside local agency. Central to
Burton's contradictory and complex personality was a passionate
desire to see the emancipation of humankind from the spiritual
powers of darkness believing only Spirit-empowered local agency
would enduringly prove effective. Burton's faith believed for
Spirit intervention in church communities converting lives,
bringing physical healing and transforming regions. In the
maelstrom following Congolese Independence, Burton's belief in his
own brand of indigenisation made him an outlier even among
Pentecostals. Burton's pentecostal faith engendered an idealism
which frustratingly conflicted with those not sharing it in the way
he pursued it. This book thus serves Pentecostals and historians by
clarifying Burton's ideals and revealing the reasons for his
frustrations.
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