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Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > Pentecostal Churches
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Jim Goll
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Two powerful and interrelated transnational cultural expressions
mark our epoch. They are Charismatic spirituality and the global
city. This book offers a fresh and challenging articulation of the
character of the charismatic renewal of Christianity in the
framework of global cities, the socio-economic situation of poor
urban residents, and urban space, resulting in a vision for the
future city as a religious, ethical, and political space. The book
studies the social, economic, and ethical implications of the
charismatic renewal on urban living and urban design aimed at
promoting human flourishing. From multidisciplinary perspectives
Nimi Wariboko investiages the nature and impact of interreligious
dialogues and encounters between charismatic Christianity and other
religions in global cities.
Pilgrimage into Pentecost explores the life and legacy of Howard M.
Ervin, Th.D., chronicling Ervin's pilgrimage from his beginnings as
Baptist pastor to his global influence as a Pentecostal leader. His
exegetical theology led him to advocate a distinctively Lukan
theology of the Holy Spirit, and he became for a while the leading
scholarly apologist for the classical Pentecostal doctrine of
Spirit baptism. Ervin's scholarship spurred fruitful theological
debate on the contemporary work of the Holy Spirit, especially with
New Testament scholar James D.G. Dunn, while his extensive
ecumenical pastoral ministry demonstrated the Spirit's work of
unifying the body of Christ. Pilgrimage into Pentecost not only
pays well-deserved tribute to a pioneer of Pentecostal scholarship
but also offers his devout scholarship and distinguished forty-year
teaching career at Oral Roberts University (ORU) as an example for
others.
aAn exceptional book in that it tells the story of the failure of a
faith-based movement rather than its success. In a richly textured
narrative, the authors describe the limitations of religious
charisma when it confronts the harsh reality of a business-minded
board that requires accountability. This book is fascinating
reading for anyone who wants to understand the interplay between
spirit and flesh, vision and economic reality.a
--Donald E. Miller, Executive Director, Center for Religion and
Civic Culture, University of Southern California
What does it mean to live out the theology presented in the
Great Commandment to alove God above all and to love your neighbor
as yourselfa? In Blood and Fire, Poloma and Hood explore how
understandings of godly love function to empower believers. Though
godly love may begin as a perceived relationship between God and a
person, it is made manifest as social behavior among people.
Blood and Fire offers a deep ethnographic portrait of a
charismatic church and its faith-based ministry, illuminating how
religiously motivated social service makes use of beliefs about the
nature of Godas love. It traces the triumphs and travails
associated with living a set of rigorous religious ideals,
providing a richly textured analysis of a faith community
affiliated with the aemerging churcha movement in Pentecostalism,
one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic religious movements of
our day.
Based on more than four years of interviews and surveys with
people from all levels of the organization, from the leader to core
and marginal members to the poor and addicts they are seeking to
serve, Blood and Fire sheds light on the differing worldviews
andreligious perceptions between those who "served in" as well as
those who were "served by" this ministry.
Blood and Fire argues that godly love -- the relationship
between perceived divine love and human response -- is at the heart
of the vision of emerging churches, and that it is essential to
understand this dynamic if one is to understand the ongoing
reinvention of American Protestantism in the twenty-first
century.
One of the unique aspects of the religious profession is the high
percentage of those who claim to be "called by God" to do their
work. This call is particularly important within African American
Christian traditions. Divine Callings offers a rare sociological
examination of this markedly understudied phenomenon within black
ministry. Richard N. Pitt draws on over 100 in-depth interviews
with Black Pentecostal ministers in the Church of God in
Christ-both those ordained and licensed and those aspiring-to
examine how these men and women experience and pursue "the call."
Viewing divine calling as much as a social process as it is a
spiritual one, Pitt delves into the personal stories of these
individuals to explore their work as active agents in the process
of fulfilling their calling. In some cases, those called cannot
find pastoral work due to gender discrimination, lack of clergy
positions, and educational deficiencies. Pitt looks specifically at
how those who have not obtained clergy positions understand their
call, exploring the influences of psychological experience, the
congregational acceptance of their call, and their response to the
training process. He emphasizes how those called reconceptualize
clericalism in terms of who can be called, how that call has to be
certified, and what those called are meant to do, offering insight
into how social actors adjust to structural constraints.
Wallace H. Heflin, Jr., spent a lifetime hearing the voice of God
and following God's directives in dynamic ministry to the people of
this nation and the world. In this book, the last one that he wrote
before his death in December of 1996, he challenges us that not
only is it possible to hear the voice of God, but that God actually
extends to every one of us an invitation to commune with Him.
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