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.
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