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Despite the fact that women are often mentioned as having played
instrumental roles in the establishment of Methodism on the
Continent of Europe, very little detail concerning the women has
ever been provided to add texture to this historical tapestry. This
book of essays redresses this by launching a new and wider
investigation into the story of pioneering Methodist women in
Europe. By bringing to light an alternative set of historical
narratives, this edited volume gives voice to a broad range of
religious issues and concerns during the critical period in
European history between 1869 and 1939. Covering a range of nations
in Continental Europe, some important interpretive themes are
suggested, such as the capacity of women to network, their ability
to engage in God's work, and their skill at navigating difficult
cultural boundaries. This ground breaking study will be of
significant interest to scholars of Methodism, but also to students
and academics working in history, religious studies, and gender.
Baptized in the Spirit creatively examines the most recent trends
in Pentecostal and charismatic theology, especially with regard to
the displacement of Spirit baptism as Pentecostalism s central
distinctive. The author begins by focusing on the significance of
the Holy Spirit in reciprocal and mutual work with the Son in
fulfilling the will of the Father. He also shows how the
pneumatological emphases in Pentecostal and charismatic theology
can help to correct the tendency in Western Christianity to
subordinate the Spirit to the Word."
This book isn't just about discovering our spiritual gifts, or even receiving them-it's about releasing them! God wants you to experience the great wonder of moving in and through His graceAnd#8212;on a daily basis.As you read, you'll first gain an overview of spiritual gifts and be introduced to the way the Holy Spirit moves and operates within them. Then you'll explore the nine most widely recognized spiritual gifts. These are not the only gifts God gives His children, but they are vital to understand and then activate according to His leading.Releasing Spiritual Gifts Today is filled with many examples of how the gifts have been used in action, both within the pages of the Bible and in the present day. God desires to pour out His gifts on His people with even greater degrees of impact and authority. This is your opportunity to find out what the Lord can do for you and through you as you release His spiritual gifts today in an outpouring of His love, grace, and power.
Evangelicalism, an inter-denominational religious movement that has
grown to become one of the most pervasive expressions of world
Christianity in the early twenty-first century, had its origins in
the religious revivals led by George Whitefield, John Wesley and
Jonathan Edwards in the middle decades of the eighteenth century.
With its stress on the Bible, the cross of Christ, conversion and
the urgency of mission, it quickly spread throughout the Atlantic
world and then became a global phenomenon. Over the past three
decades evangelicalism has become the focus of considerable
historical research. This research companion brings together a team
of leading scholars writing broad-ranging chapters on key themes in
the history of evangelicalism. It provides an authoritative and
state-of-the-art review of current scholarship, and maps the
territory for future research. Primary attention is paid to
English-speaking evangelicalism, but the volume is transnational in
its scope. Arranged thematically, chapters assess evangelicalism
and the Bible, the atonement, spirituality, revivals and
revivalism, worldwide mission in the Atlantic North and the Global
South, eschatology, race, gender, culture and the arts, money and
business, interactions with Roman Catholicism, Eastern
Christianity, and Islam, and globalization. It demonstrates
evangelicalism's multiple and contested identities in different
ages and contexts. The historical and thematic approach of this
research companion makes it an invaluable resource for scholars and
students alike worldwide.
The main concern of this study, first published in 1990, is the
part played by Protestantism in the complex of social processes of
'secularization'. The book deals with the way in which Protestant
schism and dissent paved the way for the rise of religious
pluralism and toleration; and it also looks at the fragility of the
two major responses to religious pluralism - the accommodation of
liberal Protestantism and the sectarian rejection of the
conservative alternative. It examines the part played by social,
economic and political changes in undermining the plausibility of
religion in western Europe, and puts forward the argument that core
Reformation ideas must not be overlooked, particularly the
repercussions of different beliefs about authority in competing
Christian traditions.
Previous studies of revival have tended to approach these
remarkable moments in history from either a strictly local or a
sweeping national perspective. In so doing they have dealt with
either the detailed circumstances of a particular situation or the
broader course of events. These approaches, however, have given the
incorrect impression that religious awakening are uniform
movements. As a result revivals have been misunderstood as
homogeneous campaigns. This is the first study of the 1859 revival
from a regional level in a comprehensive manner. It examines this
movement, arguably the most significant and far-reaching awakening
in modern times, as it appeared in the city of Aberdeen, the rural
hinterland of north-east Scotland, and among the fishing villages
and towns that stretch along the Moray Firth. It reveals how, far
from being unvarying, the 1859 revival was richly diverse. It
uncovers the important influence that local contexts brought to
bear upon the timing and manifestation of this awakening. Above
all, it has established the heterogeneous nature of simultaneous
revival movements that appeared in the same vicinity.
Most of the early twentieth-century Pentecostal denominations were
peace churches that encouraged a stance of conscientious objection.
However, since the Second World War Pentecostals have largely
abandoned their pacifist viewpoint as they have taken on a more
literal Biblical hermeneutic from their interaction with
Evangelical denominations. This book traces the history of
nonviolence in Pentecostalism and suggests that a new hermeneutic
of the Bible is needed by today's Pentecostals in order for them to
rediscover their pacifist roots and effect positive social change.
The book focuses on how Pentecostalism has manifested in South
Africa during the twentieth century. Much of the available academic
literature on hermeneutics and exegesis in the field of Pentecostal
Studies is of an American or British-European origin. This book
redresses this imbalance by exploring how the Bible has been used
amongst African Pentecostals to teach on the apparent paradox of a
simultaneously wrathful and loving God. It then goes onto suggest
that how the Bible is read directly affects how Pentecostals view
their role as potential reformers of society. So, it must be
engaged seriously and thoughtfully. By bringing Pentecostalism's
function in South African society to the fore, this book adds a
fresh perspective on the issue of pacifism in world Christianity.
As such it will be of great use to scholars of Pentecostal Studies,
Theology, and Religion and Violence as well as those working in
African Studies.
Claim your prophetic promise in the midst of the storm!
What do you do when you receive a promise from the Lord but it doesn’t
come to pass? How do you get from promise to fulfillment?
When Ryan Johnson’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, God took him on a
revelatory journey, showing him how prophetic promises are realized. In
the midst of her grim diagnosis, Ryan’s mother was having recurring
dreams of playing with her adult grandchildren. These dreams were
prophetic signposts that the diagnosis would not be a death sentence.
This gave Ryan faith to press into God for answers and contend for a
miracle. Now his mother is healed and cancer free! During this process,
the Holy Spirit revealed keys to activating faith and seeing promises
come to pass, even when it seems like the situation is hopeless.
How to Contend for Your Miracle will show you how to…
- Use the dreams, visions, and prophetic words that God gives
as anchors for your faith and weapons against the enemy.
- Activate the gift of faith to accelerate the fulfillment of
your prophetic promises.
- Thrive in the midst of your struggle by standing on the
Word of God.
Rise up! Contend for your miracle, so all of God’s promises can come to
pass!
"These encounters bring amazing changes to our life, resulting in more
faith, surrender, power, understanding, and fruit." – Randy Clark,
bestselling author of Power to Heal
“The subject of Heaven on earth is one of those strategic themes and
Candice Smithyman is one of those anointed chosen messengers.” – James
W. Goll, God Encounters Ministries
This is the key to supernaturally shifting atmospheres!
Many Christians assume that only a few gifted individuals can move in
the miraculous, but the Bible teaches that all believers have unlimited
access to the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit.
When you discover your identity in Jesus, cultivate a heavenly mindset,
and access the authority you have received in Jesus, you can
immediately release the power of Heaven into your everyday
circumstances. This is the key to changing atmospheres and
circumstances around you.
Candice Smithyman is a prophetic voice who has learned to move in the
supernatural by accessing an open Heaven. Now, she wants to mentor you
to do the same.
Releasing Heaven will…
• Encourage you to confidently enter the supernatural realm as a
citizen of Heaven.
• Empower you to release miracles by praying from a heavenly dimension.
• Impart principles for accessing your heavenly riches every day.
• Teach you how to release the vats of heaven for your need and the
needs of others.
Begin accessing the Heavenly realm to change your world today!
The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and
galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound
shift in aesthetic perception that occurred during the Renaissance
and Reformation. In this book, William A. Dyrness examines
intellectual developments in late Medieval Europe, which turned
attention away from a narrow range liturgical art and practices and
towards a celebration of God's presence in creation and in history.
Though threatened by the human tendency to self-assertion, he shows
how a new focus on God's creative and recreative action in the
world gave time and history a new seriousness, and engendered a
broad spectrum of aesthetic potential. Focusing in particular on
the writings of Luther and Calvin, Dyrness demonstrates how the
reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the
role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric
poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
To many people, the Church of England and worldwide Anglican
Communion has the aura of an institution that is dislocated and
adrift. Buffeted by tempestuous and stormy debates on sexuality,
gender, authority and power - to say nothing of priorities in
mission and ministry, and the leadership and management of the
church - a once confident Anglicanism appears to be anxious and
vulnerable. The Future Shape of Anglicanism offers a constructive
and critical engagement with the currents and contours that have
brought the church to this point. It assesses and evaluates the
forces now shaping the church and challenges them culturally,
critically, and theologically. The Future Shape of Anglicanism
engages with the church of the present that is simultaneously
dissenting and loyal, as well as critical and constructive. For all
who are engaged in ecclesiological investigations, and for those
who study the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion,
this book offers new maps and charts for the present and future. It
is an essential companion and guide to some of the movements and
forces that are currently shaping the church.
This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation
has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between
the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Remembering the
Reformation traces how a complex, protracted, and unpredictable
process came to be perceived, recorded, and commemorated as a
transformative event. Exploring both local and global patterns of
memory, the contributors examine the ways in which the Reformation
embedded itself in the historical imagination and analyse the
enduring, unstable, and divided legacies that it engendered. The
book also underlines how modern scholarship is indebted to
processes of memory-making initiated in the early modern period and
challenges the conventional models of periodisation that the
Reformation itself helped to create. This collection of essays
offers an expansive examination and theoretically engaged
discussion of concepts and practices of memory and Reformation.
This volume is ideal for upper level undergraduates and
postgraduates studying the Reformation, Early Modern Religious
History, Early Modern European History, and Early Modern
Literature.
This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation
has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between
the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Remembering the
Reformation traces how a complex, protracted, and unpredictable
process came to be perceived, recorded, and commemorated as a
transformative event. Exploring both local and global patterns of
memory, the contributors examine the ways in which the Reformation
embedded itself in the historical imagination and analyse the
enduring, unstable, and divided legacies that it engendered. The
book also underlines how modern scholarship is indebted to
processes of memory-making initiated in the early modern period and
challenges the conventional models of periodisation that the
Reformation itself helped to create. This collection of essays
offers an expansive examination and theoretically engaged
discussion of concepts and practices of memory and Reformation.
This volume is ideal for upper level undergraduates and
postgraduates studying the Reformation, Early Modern Religious
History, Early Modern European History, and Early Modern
Literature.
Sanctification is a central theme in the theology of both John and
Charles Wesley. However, while John's theology of sanctification
has received much scholarly attention, significantly less has been
paid to Charles' views on the subject. This book redresses this
imbalance by using Charles' many poetic texts as a window into his
rich theological thought on sanctification, particularly uncovering
the role of resignation in the development of his views on this key
doctrine. In this analysis of Charles' theology of sanctification,
the centrality he accorded to resignation is uncovered to show a
positive attribute involving acts of intention, desire and offering
to God. The book begins by putting Charles' position in the context
of contemporary theology, and then shows how he differed in
attitude from his brother John. It then discusses in depth how his
hymns use the concept of resignation, both in relation to Jesus
Christ and the believer. It concludes this analysis by identifying
the ways in which Charles understood the relationship between
resignation and sanctification; namely, that resignation is a lens
through which Charles views holiness. The final chapter considers
the implications of these conclusions for a twenty-first century
theological and spiritual context, and asks whether resignation is
still a concept which can be used today. This book breaks new
ground in the understanding of Charles Wesley's personal theology.
As such, it will be of significant interest to scholars of
Methodism and the Wesleys as well as those working in theology,
spirituality, and the history of religion.
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This book examines the contributions, both intentional and
unintentional, of Nigerian Pentecostal churches and NGOs to
development, studying their development practices broadly in
relation to the intersecting spheres of politics, economics,
health, education, human rights, and peacebuilding. In sub-Saharan
Africa, Pentecostalism is fast becoming the dominant expression of
Christianity, but while the growth and civic engagement of these
churches has been well documented, their role in development has
received less attention. The Nigerian Pentecostal landscape is one
of the most vibrant in Africa. Churches are increasingly assuming
more prominent roles as they seek to address the social and moral
ills of contemporary society, often in fierce competition with
Islam for dominance in Nigerian public space. Some scholars suggest
that the combination of an enchanted worldview, an emphasis on
miracles and prosperity teaching, and a preoccupation with
evangelism discourages effective political engagement and militates
against development. However, Nigerian Pentecostalism and
Development argues that there is an emerging movement within
contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism which is becoming increasingly
active in development practices. This book goes on to explore the
increasingly transnational approach that churches take, often
seeking to build multicultural congregations around the globe, for
instance in Britain and the United States. Nigerian Pentecostalism
and Development: Spirit, Power, and Transformation will be of
considerable interest to scholars and students concerned with the
intersection between religion and development, and to development
practitioners and policy-makers working in the region.
Originally published in 1996 Religious Higher Education in the
United States looks at the issue of higher education and a lack of
a clearly articulated purpose, an issue particularly challenging to
religiously-affiliated institutions. This volume attempts to
address the problems currently facing denomination-affiliated
institutions of higher education, beginning with an introduction to
government aid and the regulation of religious colleges and
universities in the US. The greater part of the volume consists of
24 chapters, each of which begins with a historical essay followed
by annotated bibliographical entries covering primary and secondary
sources dating back to 1986 on various denomination-connected
institutions.
Philip Gorski is a very well-known and highly respected author. His
work on Christianity and Democracy is ground breaking and he is a
pioneer of the field. The book is incredibly topical and will be of
interested to those studying Christianity, religion and politics
and evangelicalism. This will be the first academic book to take
this approach to the subject area.
Rodney Hogue didn’t believe that believers could be oppressed by demons…
But one day, the Holy Spirit revealed that he was being oppressed by a
demonic
spirit. In disgust, Rodney commanded the demon to leave in Jesus’ name.
To his
surprise, it did! Since then, he’s been driven by a passion to see
others set free from
spiritual strongholds, and brought into a powerful encounter with the
love, freedom,
and healing of Jesus!
Today, Hogue teaches that the first step to deliverance is exposing the
works of
darkness. All too often, a demonic presence is overlooked as merely a
bad habit or
something that “runs in the family.” Unless we recognize the enemy’s
stealth tactics,
we will fail to confront the true issue and continue to experience
demonic torment.
In Liberated, Hogue offers powerful tools for discerning and defeating
the enemy’s
work through the Holy Spirit’s power.
Discover how to:
- Operate in your spiritual jurisdiction of authority when
confronting demons.
- Recognize signs and symptoms of demonic oppression.
- Identify and close any open doors granting demons access to your
life.
- Confidently deal with evil spirits when they manifest.
- Step-by-step, minister deliverance for yourself and others.
- Rebuild broken areas of life after receiving inner healing and
deliverance.
When strongholds are exposed, freedom comes and healing can begin!
God Delights in You
God loves us. With all our faults and failures, with all the
secret sins no one else knows about. In fact, He rejoices over us
so much that He breaks out in inexpressible joy and song as He
thinks about us.
"The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his
love; he will exult over you with loud singing." --Zephaniah 3:17
That's how God feels about you He looks at you, He thinks of
you...and He sings for joy
In "The Singing God" Sam Storms explores God's immeasurable love
for His children. You don't need to be different; you don't need to
be better. You just need to know that God loves you just the way
you are now...today. When you truly believe this, you will find the
strength and incentive to fight sin, experience freedom from shame,
and walk in the fullness of all that God desires for you.
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in religion
and religious issues. Some have linked this to a neo-liberal form
of individualism, while others noted that secularism has left
people bereft of a humanly necessary link with the transcendent.
The importance of identity issues has also been remarked upon. This
book examines how liberal forms of religion are allowing people to
engage with religion on their own terms, while also feeling part of
something more universal. Looking at liberal approaches to the
Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Protestant and Roman Catholic
Christianity and Islam - this book teases out how postmodern
culture has shaped the way in which people engage with these
religions. It also compares and contrasts how liberal thinking and
theology have been expressed in each of the faiths examined, as
well as the reactionary responses to its emergence. By considering
how liberalism has influenced the narrative around the Abrahamic
faiths, this book demonstrates how malleable faith and spirituality
can be. As such, it will be of interest to scholars working in
Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology.
ECPA Christian Book of the Year Christianity Today Book of the Year
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist IVP Readers' Choice
Award How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around a nighttime
prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the
Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and
God's seeming absence. When she navigated a time of doubt and loss,
the prayer was grounding for her. She writes that practices of
prayer "gave words to my anxiety and grief and allowed me to
reencounter the doctrines of the church not as tidy little
antidotes for pain, but as a light in darkness, as good news."
Where do we find comfort when we lie awake worrying or weeping in
the night? This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the
difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world
filled with uncertainty.
Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard
Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from
South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a
two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel. He
arrived in the midst of a democratic revolution-the first of its
kind in the Middle East-led by a group of brilliant young
firebrands committed to transforming their country into a fully
self-determining, constitutional monarchy, one with free elections
and an independent parliament. The Persian students Baskerville
educated in English in turn educated him about their struggle for
democracy, ultimately inspiring him to leave his teaching post and
join them in their fight against a tyrannical shah and his British
and Russian backers. "The only difference between me and these
people is the place of my birth," Baskerville declared, "and that
is not a big difference." In 1909, Baskerville was killed in battle
alongside his students, but his martyrdom spurred on the
revolutionaries who succeeded in removing the shah from power,
signing a new constitution, and rebuilding parliament in Tehran. To
this day, Baskerville's tomb in the city of Tabriz remains a place
of pilgrimage. Every year, thousands of Iranians visit his grave to
honor the American who gave his life for Iran. In this rip-roaring
tale of his life and death, Aslan gives us a powerful parable about
the universal ideals of democracy-and to what degree Americans are
willing to support those ideals in a foreign land. Woven throughout
is an essential history of the nation we now know as
Iran-frequently demonized and misunderstood in the West. Indeed,
Baskerville's life and death represent a "road not taken" in Iran.
Baskerville's story, like his life, is at the center of a whirlwind
in which Americans must ask themselves: How seriously do we take
our ideals of constitutional democracy and whose freedom do we
support?
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