Azusa, Rome, and Zion

Azusa, Rome, and Zion
Author: Peter D. Hocken
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498228348

Azusa, Rome, and Zion offers historical, theological, and spiritual reflections on major movements of the Holy Spirit in modern times. The author shows where the lived experience of these movements challenges received theological concepts and categories, and indicates how engagement with these challenges can contribute to Christian reconciliation and Christian unity. Of particular interest are the surprising ways in which what appear at first sight to be new obstacles and points of division can in fact lead into deeper grasp of God's purposes for the body of Christ. Two chapters indicate the immense potential being opened up by the ministry of Pope Francis. The title captures not just the place of Pentecostals, Catholics, and Jews, but a historical dynamic that reverses the original going out from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.

Azusa, Rome, and Zion

Azusa, Rome, and Zion
Author: Peter D. Hocken
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498228356

Azusa, Rome, and Zion offers historical, theological, and spiritual reflections on major movements of the Holy Spirit in modern times. The author shows where the lived experience of these movements challenges received theological concepts and categories, and indicates how engagement with these challenges can contribute to Christian reconciliation and Christian unity. Of particular interest are the surprising ways in which what appear at first sight to be new obstacles and points of division can in fact lead into deeper grasp of God's purposes for the body of Christ. Two chapters indicate the immense potential being opened up by the ministry of Pope Francis. The title captures not just the place of Pentecostals, Catholics, and Jews, but a historical dynamic that reverses the original going out from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.

The Truth About Grace

The Truth About Grace
Author: Vinson Synan
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1629995053

Often the modern grace message gives people a license to disregard the clear moral teachings of Jesus and the apostles. Churches around the globe teach a lawless grace and direct many to make choices of convenience and compromise. Consequently Christianity loses public credibility as so-called leaders of faith fall into adultery, child abuse, alcoholism, financial corruption, and many other sins. This is the great crisis of the twenty-first-century church, and respected theologian Vinson Synan says it’s time to bring it to light. Featuring perspectives of leaders from a range of cultural, pastoral, and theological backgrounds, The Truth About Grace opens the discussion to more than a dozen scholarly contributors, tackling topics such as grace and the security of the believer; grace versus works; and tongues as a manifestation of grace. Synan brings you the key voices on this hot topic, from hyper-grace critic Michael Brown to Singaporean pastor Joseph Prince, whom some consider a leading voice in the hyper-grace movement. The Truth About Grace will help you discern the unbiblical excesses in the modern grace message while growing in understanding of the true nature and purpose of grace.

Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology

Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004408371

Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology: Interpretations, Intersections, and Inspirations brings together globally recognized and newer scholars to address the complex relationship between Pentecostalism and the Ecumenical Movement. Historical essays address topics such as early Pentecostal responses to and participation in ecumenism, explicit convergences between Pentecostal and ecumenical initiatives, and the particular contributions of Pentecostals and ecumenists outside North America and Europe. Constructive theological essays address intersections between ecumenical theology and systematic loci in Pentecostal perspective, in the hope that mutual exchange and criticism will lead to ways to improve both. Never before have this many scholars of Pentecostalism combined their efforts in order to focus on the relationship between Pentecostal theology and ecumenical theology past, present, and future.

A Jew to the Jews

A Jew to the Jews
Author: David Rudolph
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016-10-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498296165

David J. Rudolph raises new questions about Paul's view of the Torah and Jewish identity in this post-supersessionist interpretation of 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. Paul's principle of accommodation is considered in light of the diversity of Second Temple Judaism and Jesus' example and rule of accommodation.

Pentecostals and Roman Catholics on Becoming a Christian

Pentecostals and Roman Catholics on Becoming a Christian
Author: Karen Murphy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004367861

In Pentecostals and Roman Catholics on Becoming a Christian, Dr. Karen Murphy explores the fifth round of the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue (1998-2006). Discussing Spirit-baptism, faith, conversion, experience, and discipleship, Dr. Murphy notes areas in which the Dialogue has evolved since its inception in 1972. She unpacks the commonalities that bond Catholics and Pentecostals and examines theological divergences and challenges to dialogue. While Catholics approach becoming a Christian from a sacramental perspective, most Pentecostals think of Christian initiation in non-sacramental, or conversionist, terms, a reality that fosters ongoing tensions between the two traditions. Dr. Murphy reveals how Catholics and Pentecostals seek to overcome this dichotomy by honoring spirituality and experience as integral to the ecumenical encounter.

Mantled for Greatness

Mantled for Greatness
Author: Joshua Giles
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493445383

Unlock the Greatness of God Inside You Something is stirring deep inside us--a seed of greatness buried just below the surface, daring to break forth. We know we are created for more, but are we actually equipped to handle it? Challenging you to think bigger, prophetic voice Joshua Giles helps you awaken to a vision, anointing, dream, and calling for your life that is greater than you can imagine. Through Scripture, stories, and sound prophetic insight, he helps you · expand your capacity to house more of what God has for you · embrace the small things that unlock the great things · handle the pressures of divine assignments · break through your limitations · prepare for a net-breaking blessing · catch your mantle God created you for greater things--and he's called you to a God-sized dream that will turn the world upside down.

Marginalized Voices

Marginalized Voices
Author: Timothy B. Cremeens
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498241506

The Orthodox Church has been characterized by some as "the best-kept secret in North America." Making use of personal interviews and correspondence, magazine and news articles, and other publications, Timothy Cremeens weaves the story of a spiritual renewal movement that began in the United States in the early 1960s and rapidly spread around the globe touching millions of Roman Catholics and Protestants, what is today called the Charismatic Renewal Movement. In 2017, this Movement, celebrated its 50th Jubilee anniversary in the Roman Catholic Church. However, Cremeens presents here the never-before heard story of that Movement among the Orthodox Churches in North America. He recounts the history of this spiritual renewal movement through the first-hand accounts and eyewitnesses of Orthodox clergy and laity who testify to their life-changing encounters with the Holy Spirit.

A History of Judaism and Christianity

A History of Judaism and Christianity
Author: Donald Swenson
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1664237429

This book, pastoral in nature, is to provide the reader with an in-depth analysis of the challenging history of Judaism, Israel, and the Christian church. After offering an introduction to the First Testament (in Hebrew, Tanakh), the author proceeds to portray an image of Early Christianity or the Jesus Movement during the Apostolic Era to the beginning of the fourth century. During the early part of this era, there was a vibrant union between Jewish believers in Jesus (in Hebrew, Yeshua) and Gentile believers in Jesus. However, over these years, anti-Semitism grew within the Christian Church that resulted in a wound of division between the two segments of the Christian faith. This division resulted in anti-Semitic attitudes, discrimination, exiles and pogroms against the Jewish people, the nation of Israel. This lead, in part to one of the most tragic events in human history, the Holocaust or the Shoah. The author documents factors, both distal and proximate, of the tragedy. Beginning in the decade after WWII, the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and, the Catholic Council called Vatican Council II, new hopes for repentance, reconciliation, and healing have begun between the Christian Church, Israel and Messianic Judaism. Sources to the work emerge from the theologies of Judaism, Christianity, and Messianic Judaism. The document is framed sociologically by using ideal types and historical sociological materials. The goal is for the Christian Church to remember, repent of her collective sins against the Jewish people and to journey towards reconciliation among Jews, Messianic Jews, and Christians.