Pentecostalism category: 1181 books
An African Pentecostal Hermeneutics
A Distinctive Contribution to Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
The face of African Christianity is becoming Pentecostal. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, but its collective interest in baptism in the Spirit and the result of Pentecost in daily living binds it together. Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation that the Spirit who inspired...
Azusa Street Papers - Apostolic Faith (1906-1908)
The official magazine of the Azusa Street Revival!
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The Azusa Street Papers are the original 13 newsletter style magazines that William Seymour and the Apostolic Faith Mission sent out, documenting the work of God at Azusa and around the world from 1906-1908. Not only will these papers give you a first-hand look at early Pentecostalism, they will...
Paul Tillich and Pentecostal Theology
Spiritual Presence and Spiritual Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. By bringing his thought together with the theology and practices of an important contemporary Christian movement, Pentecostalism, this volume provokes active, productive, critical, and creative...
by Cecil Robeck
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
Nearly twenty-five percent of the world's Christians count themselves among the Charismatic and Pentecostal family of Christian Movements, yet few know how Pentecostalism began. The Azusa Street Mission and Revival tells the story of the small racially-inclusive group that gathered in Los Angeles...
by John Alexander Dowie
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
John Alexander Dowie's ministry predated the contemporary revival of Pentecostalism and many of his followers became influential figures in the Pentecostal revival in the early years of the twentieth century.
His teaching on healing laid a great foundation for the new Spirit-filled churches...
If I Give My Soul
Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. He began by spending two weeks living in a Brazilian prison as if he were an inmate: sleeping in the same cells as the inmates, eating the same food,...
Spirit-Empowered Christianity in the 21st Century
Insights, Analysis, and Future Trends from World-Renowned Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
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 Labor of Faith
Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United States. This male-headed...
The Word and Power Church
What Happens When a Church Seeks All God Has to Offer?
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
You don't have to head overseas to find a war. In the church, the rhetorical cross-fire between evangelical and "spirit-filled" Christians over the past hundred years has been withering. "No scriptural foundations," is the charge evangelicals have leveled at the charismatics. "No spiritual power,"...
Pentecostal Theology
Living the Full Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Winner of the Pneuma Book Award 2018, from The Society for Pentecostal Studies.
Pentecostalism is the most rapidly growing branch of Christianity since the 20th century, yet it does not lend itself well to a singular doctrine and there is, therefore, no single comprehensive account of Pentecostal...
Global Renewal Christianity
Europe and North America Spirit Empowered Movements: Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The growth of Spirit-empowered Christianity has been nothing short of phenomenal. From a handful of believers in the early twentieth century to over six hundred million people in almost every culture and denomination today, those who embrace the Holy Spirit and His gifts are now the fastest-growing religious...
Blood and Fire
Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
What does it mean to live out the theology presented in the Great Commandment to “love God above all and to love your neighbor as yourself”? 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...
Addicted to Christ
Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? In Addicted to Christ, Helena Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black...
A New Apostolic Reformation?
A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
This critique provides a framework for understanding and interpreting the widespread but little-known New Apostolic Reformation movement. As the authors state in the preface: We write this book with two major goals in mind. First, to give people an idea of the sheer size and reach of the NAR movement....