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Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > Pentecostal Churches
Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music
to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to
religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular
music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicated music's
place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican
Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities.
Melvin Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its
impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the
concept of flow, Butler's ethnography evokes both the experience of
Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the
controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between
Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of
religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music's vital
place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while
striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their
evolving tradition.Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the
many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create
a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.
Frank D. Macchia argues that the Son of God baptized (and continues
to baptize) humanity in the Spirit by pouring forth the Spirit on
the Day of Pentecost. All four Gospels and the book of Acts
describe how the Son is sent of the Father and empowered by the
Spirit to fulfil this mission; Macchia in turn claims that Christ
succeeds by incorporating others into himself and into the love of
the Father. The Spirit-Baptized Church proposes a richly
pneumatological ecclesiology that is dominated by a Pentecostal
confessional concern, while also open to a larger ecumenical
conversation. The volume focuses not only on the dogmatic
(Trinitarian) foundations and election processes of the
Spirit-baptized church, but also on its marks and witnessing
practices. As an exceptionally detailed study of the
Spirit-baptismal metaphor, this volume is a valuable resource for
scholars of ecclesiology, Pentecostalism, and systematic theology.
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