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Author: May Ling Tan-Chow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131708263X
Size: 31.79 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2016-05-13
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Pentecostal Theology For The Twenty First Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In our post 9/11 world where there is a growing religious fundamentalism, and when both exclusion and easy tolerance are inadequate options, this book offers a creative alternative arguing that Pentecostalism has the potential to be a peaceful harbinger of plurality. The potential lies in its spirituality - a lively pneumatology and eschatology. The eschatological Spirit is seen as orientated towards the other, crossing boundaries in redemptive embrace, transcending exclusion and easy tolerance. This book's non-Western perspective and the empirical contextual study of Singapore's multicultural and multi-faith context are unique contributions to religion and society. This is a book for students, pastors, teachers, and theologians concerned for an approach to mission that is sensitive to their context, who want to learn from a creative theological voice from what has been perhaps the largest religious movement in history, and who see the immense potential in lively theology by Christians of the Chinese diaspora who can speak to the many millions of ethnic Chinese Christians. This book will also appeal to those outside Christianity who are interested in its attempts to engage with a complex multi-ethnic and multi-religious situation such as that in Singapore.

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Book Detail:
Author: Corneliu Constantineanu
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498240658
Size: 39.38 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2018-01-11
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Pentecostals In The 21st Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A little over one hundred years ago the Holy Spirit breathed a fresh awakening into little communities in Topeka, Kansas (1901) and then on Azusa Street in California (1906). Over the past century this spiritual awakening has touched every country on the globe. By 2014 there were 631 million Pentecostals in the world, comprising a quarter of all Christians, and that number is forecast to grow to 800 million by 2025. This book offers a window into some of the unique features of this phenomenal movement through expert contributions from some of the world's preeminent Pentecostal theologians. It presents a Pentecostal perspective on important theological themes that pastors, theologians, and lay leaders are grappling with in the twenty-first century.

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Book Detail:
Author: PHYLLIS THOMPSON
Publisher: SPCK
ISBN: 0281084262
Size: 16.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2020-06-18
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Challenges Of Pentecostal Theology In The 21st Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Where is Pentecostal theology going in the 21st century? How does it address issues of spirituality, politics and justice? What does it have to offer the worldwide Church? These and other vital questions are explored here by leading Pentecostal theologians from the UK and the USA as they assess the challenges and opportunities facing Pentecostalism today. With stimulating contributions by Joel Edwards, Charlotte Johnson, Steven Land, Douglas Nelson, Phyllis Thompson and Keith Warrington, this book offers valuable guidance to church leaders and to students training for the ministry throughout the Pentecostal world. ‘There is passion and information here, advice for the present and hope for the future.’ William K. Kay, Institute for Pentecostal Theology, Regents Theological College ‘When we consider that one in four Christians are Pentecostals, this book is a “must” for all who are seeking to improve their knowledge of Pentecostal theology and recognize its distinctives.’ Bishop Dr Donald Bolt, New Testament Church of God England and Wales

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Book Detail:
Author: Vinson Synan
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1616382198
Size: 77.75 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2011
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Spirit Empowered Christianity In The 21st Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What does a re-vision of the Charismatic/Pentecostal Spirit-empowered movement look like in the coming years of this millennium? The first century of this revival seems to attest that the Lord raised up the holiness and Pentecostal movements not only to be custodians of these distinctive truths, but the perpetuators of them as well. If any generation ceases to accentuate this emphasis, the movement likely will forfeit the right to be recognized as such. When the Pentecostal message is preached, published, and proclaimed through triumphant song, an atmosphere is sustained for people to experience anew and again the reality of salvation, holiness, charismata, wholeness, and hope. Such a revival will be biblically based, rationally sound, traditionally accurate, and experientially real. Spirit-Empowered Christianity in the 21st Century is an authoritative compilation of the presentations from thirty leaders in the Charismatic/Pentecostal movement given at the Empowered 21 Conference in Tulsa, OK, in April 2010. These chapters share emerging insights on how the next generation will handle the profound issues facing Christians within the Charismatic/Pentecostal movement in the 21st century. For example, one portion covers the topic of the 21st century renewal while another discusses how we can protect our Charismatic distinctive. Another portion will highlight Charismatic adaptations for reaching this present age, discussing issues of social and economic justice, prosperity and suffering, challenges to urban ministry, the future of the next generation, Oneness Pentecostalism, and missiological aims in North America.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kenneth Archer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567083678
Size: 72.74 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2004-12-30
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF A Pentecostal Hermeneutic For The Twenty First Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The purpose of this book is to present a critically informed contemporary Pentecostal hermeneutic rooted in Pentecostal identity, in its stories, beliefs and practices. As Pentecostals began entering academic communities of higher learning, their interpretive methods became both mainstream and modernistic as they adapted the historical critical methods, or the so-called scientific hermeneutic. The proposed hermeneutic contained in this book desires to move beyond the impasse created by Modernity, instead pushing Pentecostals into the contemporary context by critically re-appropriating early Pentecostal ethos and interpretive practices for a contemporary Pentecostal community. The Pentecostal hermeneutic is a three-way interaction for theological meaning between the Holy Spirit, the Pentecostal community and sacred Scripture.

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Book Detail:
Author: Henry I. Lederle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981952635
Size: 37.38 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2010-05
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Theology With Spirit eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Discloses the inner theo-logic of the movements that rocketed from obscurity to electrifying global growth in the 'century of the Spirit.' Deeply researched, its wide-angle history classifies these Spirit Movements originally, from the Azusa Street Revival to today's Third Wave and Word of Faith Movements. Theology with Spirit explains, reflects on, and evaluates key doctrines from today's renewal streams, from Spirit Baptism to eschatology and teachings on faith showing which stream will lead Holy Spirit renewal globally during the 21st century--and why. Read it so you too may flow with the Spirit"--Cover.

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Book Detail:
Author: Harvey Cox
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306810497
Size: 59.37 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2001-05-24
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Fire From Heaven eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible?and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality?a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people.

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Book Detail:
Author: Steven M. Studebaker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 163087714X
Size: 44.58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2010-09-20
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Pentecostalism And Globalization eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In little over a century, the Pentecostal movement has emerged from small bands of revival seekers to become one of the largest Christian groups in the world. Primarily a movement within Western Christianity for much of its brief history, it is increasingly characterized as a global movement. Pentecostal theology and ministry in a Western context must engage global Pentecostalism and be willing to rethink its traditional patterns of thought and practice in light of the evolving nature of the movement. The essays in this book come mainly from the McMaster Divinity College 2008 Pentecostal Forum: "The Many Faces of Pentecostalism: Pentecostalism and Globalization." The first section outlines the nature of globalization and establishes it as the context for contemporary Pentecostal theology and ministry. The other contributions explore the impact of globalization on traditional areas of Pentecostal theology, such as Spirit baptism and speaking in tongues, and twenty-first-century Pentecostal ministry.

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Book Detail:
Author: Harlyn Graydon Purdy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498217818
Size: 22.37 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2015-06-22
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF A Distinct Twenty First Century Pentecostal Hermeneutic eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Why another book about biblical interpretation (hermeneutics)? First, this is not just another book about hermeneutics. It deals specifically with hermeneutics as practiced y Pentecostals; rather, more accurately, as hermeneutics should be practiced by Pentecostals. The book presents a distinct Pentecostal hermeneutic that moves away from exclusive use of historical-grammatical methodology. The hermeneutic presented here employs an eclectic methodology and a quadratic strategy. Scripture, Spirit, trained leader, and community, in the proposed hermeneutic, are shown to work together to produce an interpretation that engages both creative imagination and authorial intent. The text offers pastors, professors, and laity alike a method and approach that will allow them to interpret Scripture from a clearly Pentecostal perspective. An important addition to the book is an outline for an undergraduate course instructing students in this distinct Pentecostal hermeneutic.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kenneth J. Archer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630876593
Size: 23.46 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-01-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Gospel Revisited eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book is a constructive attempt at formulating a contemporary Pentecostal theology grounded in worship and witness. The theological vision expounded here is grounded in the Pentecostal story with its emphasis upon the fivefold Gospel. The doxological confession of Jesus as Savior, Sanctifier, Spirit Baptizer, Healer, and soon coming King provide the basic organizational structure of a Pentecostal narrative theology. Each chapter takes seriously these central convictions and allows them to shape, form, and reform various theological loci. Important issues such as methodology, hermeneutics, and theology as embodied worship and witness are addressed. The result is a vibrant and integrative theology fueled by a dynamic spirituality.

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Book Detail:
Author: Harvey Cox
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786731346
Size: 10.20 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009-03-25
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Fire From Heaven eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible?and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality?a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people.

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Book Detail:
Author: Amos Yong
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532604890
Size: 38.73 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-11-06
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Hermeneutical Spirit eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the contemporary biblical studies climate, proposals regarding the theological interpretation of Scripture are contested, particularly but not only because they privilege, encourage, and foster ecclesial or other forms of normative commitments as part and parcel of the hermeneutical horizon through which scriptural texts are read and understood. Within this context, confessional approaches have been emerging, including some from within the nascent pentecostal theological tradition. This volume builds on the author's previous work in theological method to suggest a pentecostal perspective on theological interpretation that is rooted in the conviction that all Christian reading of sacred Scripture is post-Pentecost, meaning after the Day of Pentecost outpouring of the Spirit on all flesh in anticipation of the coming reign of God. In that respect, such a pentecostal interpretative perspective is not parochially for those within the modern day movement bearing that name but is arguably apostolic in following after the scriptural imagination of the earliest disciples of Jesus the messiah and therefore has ecumenical and missional purchase across space and time. The Hermeneutical Spirit thus provides close readings of various texts across the scriptural canon as a model for Christian theological interpretation of Scripture suitable for the twenty-first-century global context.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gerald H. Anderson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802806383
Size: 45.85 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1993
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Toward The Twenty First Century In Christian Mission eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This unique volume offers a comprehensive survey of the prospects and critical isssues for the Christian world mission. The essays--written by various mission experts--cover such topics as the biblical and theological basis of the mission, women in mission, urban mission, dialogues with other faiths, the anthropology of "popular" religions, and more.

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Book Detail:
Author: Douglas F. Ottati
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467460060
Size: 20.85 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-10-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF A Theology For The Twenty First Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Christianity in the United States is in crisis. Liberalism is declining, evangelicalism is splintering, increasing numbers of Christians are slipping away from churches, and more and more young people are for various reasons finding Christianity as they conceive it (a metaphysical thought system, or society of science-deniers, or an ideology for oppressors) not just implausible but repellent. At the same time, Christians across denominational and ideological divides are rediscovering a moral core, especially in the Jesus of the Gospels, that reactivates and unites them, and this kind of faith appeals to many who consider themselves averse to all traditional organized religion. But any revitalized Christian faith is going to need to understand its rootedness in, and interpretation of, Christianity’s foundational texts and traditions. Noted theologian Douglas F. Ottati steps in to offer a theology for this new era. Combining deep learning in texts and traditions with astute awareness of contemporary questions and patterns of thought and life, he asks: what does it mean, in our time, to understand the God of the Bible as Creator and Redeemer? Distilling the content of Christian faith into seventy concise propositions, he explains each in lucid, cogent prose. A Theology for the Twenty-First Century will be an essential textbook for those training for ministry in our current climate, a wise guide for contemporary believers who wonder how best to understand and communicate their faith, and an inviting and intelligent resource for serious inquirers who wonder whether the way of Jesus might help them grasp the real world while remaining open to the transcendent.

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Book Detail:
Author: Harvey Cox
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Size: 40.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1995
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Fire From Heaven eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The most experiential branch of Christianity has become the fastest growing form of worship on Earth. Harvard theologian Harvey Cox documents this extraordinary, yet largely unexamined, phenomenon, and tries to understand why this particular expression of spirituality has recently become appealing to so many people.

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Book Detail:
Author: Amos Yong
Publisher: ISD LLC
ISBN: 0227904346
Size: 34.75 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-04-30
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Dialogical Spirit eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Contemporary proposals for Christian theology from post-liberalism to Radical Orthodoxy and beyond have espoused their own methodological paradigms. Those who have ventured into this domain of theological method, however, have usually had to stake their claims vis-a-vis trends in what may be called the contemporary post-al age, whether of the post-modern, post-Christendom, post-Enlightenment, post-Western, or post-colonial varieties. This volume is unique among offerings in this arena in suggesting a way forward that engages on each of these fronts, and does so from a particularistic Christian perspective without giving up on Christian theology's traditional claims to universality. This is accomplished through the articulation of a distinctive dialogical methodology informed by both Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism, one rooted in the Christian salvation-history narrative of Incarnation and Pentecost that is yet open to the world in its many and various cultural, ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses. Amos Yong here engages with twelve different interlocutors representing different ecumenical, religious, and disciplinary perspectives. 'The Dialogical Spirit' thus not only proffers a model for Christian theological method suitable for the twenty-first century global context but also exemplifies this methodological approach through its interactions across the contemporary scholarly, inter-religious, and theological landscape.

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Book Detail:
Author: Joe Aldred
Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd
ISBN: 9780232527926
Size: 20.86 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2010
Category: Blacks
Language: en
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Download PDF The Black Church In The Twenty First Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Black Church in the 21st Century provides an exciting and fresh look at the key issues facing the Black Church Movement in Britain today, representing a bold attempt for scope and analysis. Now over 50 years old, and having experienced great success, the Black Church is facing an uncertain future as part of a context in which Christianity is itself challenged by an increasingly secular, plural society. The book shows why at a post-modern moment of competing voices and simultaneous calls for faith and cultural cohesion, the Black Church is crucial as a prophetic advocate for the Black Community. Its chapters also demonstrate that current and future social, economic and political challenges demand of the Black Church in Britain greater awareness and progressive change in both style and substance.

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Book Detail:
Author: David L. Smith
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625648642
Size: 60.47 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-10-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Theologies Of The 21st Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What theologies are popular and formative of Christian thinking in the present day? How should they be assessed by those Christians who want to be "in the world" without being "of the world"? Theologies of the 21st Century begins with an overview of the historical roots from which current theological thinking has developed, and then moves on to a detailed evaluation of the chief doctrinal and practical emphases, taking an evangelical biblical perspective that seeks to be at once both critical and irenic.

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Book Detail:
Author: Daniel Topf
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030796892
Size: 14.15 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2021-09-16
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Pentecostal Higher Education eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book presents a theological and missiological argument for pentecostals to engage more forcefully in higher education by expanding and renewing their commitment toward operating their own colleges and universities. The volume’s first part describes past and present developments within higher education, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of both pentecostal and (post)secular institutions. The second part highlights the future potential of pentecostal higher education, which is enriched by a Spirit-empowered and mission-minded spirituality that focuses on forming the hearts, heads, and hands of students. Pentecostals increasingly desire to influence all spheres of society, an endeavor that could be amplified through a strengthened engagement in higher education, particularly one that encompasses a variety of institutions, including a pentecostal research university. In developing such an argument, this research is both comprehensive and compelling, inviting pentecostals to make a missional difference in the knowledge-based economies that will characterize the twenty-first century.

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Book Detail:
Author: Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830850945
Size: 10.33 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-10-06
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Gospel And Pluralism Today eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This collection of essays explores the legacy of Lesslie Newbigin's classic work, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, critically analyzing the nature of Western pluralism and discussing the influence of Newbigin's work on the field of missiology. By looking backward, this volume advances a vision for Christian witness in the pluralistic world of the twenty-first century.

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