Perfectionist Persuasion

Author : Charles Edwin Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810843218
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfectionist Persuasion written by Charles Edwin Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1974 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social profile of the National Holiness Movement within American Methodism for the period 1867-1936. Provides fifty historical photos and extensive statistical tables and charts. Cloth edition previously published 1974. Paperback edition available March 2002.

Author : Stephen J. Lennox
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532634439
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Holiness Hermeneutic written by Stephen J. Lennox and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America in the late nineteenth century was undergoing enormous societal shifts. Immigration and urbanization were changing the face of the country. New discoveries and new perspectives on old verities stretched its mind and stirred its soul. The recently concluded Civil War left America bloodied, its self-confidence bruised, and its capacity for controversy weakened. American churches responded to these upheavals in different ways with long-lasting consequences. The reaction of one small branch of American Protestantism rooted in the broader stream of Methodism opens a window into these troubled times. This book explores how the American holiness movement navigated the societal maelstrom and the role the Bible played in charting its course. The holiness movement's response illustrates the interaction between the Bible and culture. It sheds light on the development of the movement's younger cousin, Pentecostalism. It also adds texture to the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, an important struggle that marked the early decades of the twentieth century and continues to shape America today.

Author : Peter Gardella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190609427
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innocent Ecstasy, Updated Edition written by Peter Gardella and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had such expectations. Innocent Ecstasy shows how Christianity led Americans to hope for so much from sex. The book explains how the sexual revolution could have occurred in a nation so deeply imbued with Christian ethical values. Tracing our strange journey from the hands of Jonathan Edward's angry Puritan God to the loving embrace of Marabel Morgan's Total Woman, Gardella draws his surprising evidence from widely disparate sources, ranging from Catholic confessionals to methodist revival meetings, from evangelical romances to The Song of Bernadette. He reveals the sexual messages of mainstream Protestant theology and the religious aspirations of medical texts found at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. He sheds new light on such well-known figures as Henry Adams, Margaret Sanger, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and introduces us to such fascinating, lesser-known characters as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Sylvester Graham, inventors of corn flakes and Graham crackers, who devised their products as anti-aphrodisiacs. While detailing the development of moral obligations to pursue sexual pleasure and to follow certain patterns of sexual practice, Gardella incidentally provides one of the few books to bring together the liberal Protestant, Roman Catholic, and evangelical perspectives on any aspect of American culture. Gardella attributes the American ethic of sexual pleasure to the eagerness of Americans to overcome original sin. This led to a quest for perfection, or complete freedom from guilt, combined with a quest for ecstatic experience. The result, he maintains, is an attitude that looks to sex for what was once expected from religion. In this new edition, a new conclusion explores how popular music, gay liberation, and recovery from sexual abuse have substantially expanded innocent ecstasy during the past thirty years while continuing the Christian themes of redemption and mission. A new afterword deals with contemporary developments in popular culture and offers thoughts about the future

Author : D William Faupel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004397051
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Everlasting Gospel written by D William Faupel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Pentecostalism become the fastest growing movement within Christendom in the twentieth century? Faupel contends that Pentecostalism was propelled onto the world stage when early adherents felt commissioned by God to announce that Christ would soon return to establish his kingdom on earth. The gift of tongues would equip them supernaturally to proclaim this message to the nations in the language of the people. Although this expectation was soon disproved, the eschatological hope nevertheless remained the motivating force for Pentecostalism’s rapid growth. This book has been prescribed reading on the Pentecostal hope for many years. This edition makes it available once again to a worldwide readership.

Author : Luther Jeremiah Oconer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498203612
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit-Filled Protestantism written by Luther Jeremiah Oconer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spirit-filled Protestantism, Luther Oconer shows how holiness- and Pentecost-themed revival meetings called culto Pentecostal helped form the development of Methodism in the Philippines. He focuses on these revival meetings, their theological content, and the spiritual culture they helped perpetuate. The resulting narrative provides a rich rendering of both male and female American Methodist missionaries, their Filipino counterparts, and their followers that both celebrates and critiques them. Oconer also offers a unique perspective on Philippine Protestantism, which has often been dismissed for being too intellectual and formal. He defies the stereotype by demonstrating how culto Pentecostal revivals, with their emphasis on holiness and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, made Methodism the most innovative and successful of all Protestant denominations in the country prior to the Second World War. Accordingly, Oconer's treatment explains why Methodism provided a fertile seedbed for the emergence of the Manila Healing Revival and, consequently, the rise of Pentecostalism in the Philippines in the 1950s. A long-awaited volume on the history of Methodism in the Philippines, Spirit-filled Protestantism allows us to discern why Pentecostal impulses continue to shape Filipino Methodist identity in the twenty-first century.

Author : Bernie Van De Walle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630878170
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of the Gospel written by Bernie Van De Walle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourfold Gospel, most often associated with Albert B. Simpson, founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, which focuses on the doctrines of Christ as Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King, has been identified as a key contributing factor to the birth and development of the modern Pentecostal movement. Through a close observation of the doctrinal themes of select and renowned Evangelical leaders in America (A. J. Gordon of Boston, D. L. Moody of Chicago, A. T. Pierson of Philadelphia/Detroit, and A. B. Simpson of New York), this work shows that the Fourfold Gospel and, therefore, the theological source for modern Pentecostalism, rather than being a marginal movement within late nineteenth-century Evangelicalism was, instead, its very heart.

Author : Charles Edwin Jones
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 146167039X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfectionist Persuasion written by Charles Edwin Jones and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in Paperback! "...a model for the kind of study that other denominations now deserve and need."—THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY "...a sympathetic but balanced treatment...Important for social history collections and essential for those emphasizing the sociology of religion or American religious history."—CHOICE "...a selective, yet sensitive, authentic account of the movement...No available work competes...in its description of the varied phenomena of the holiness movement."—LEON O. HYNSON, CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW Cloth edition previously published in 1974.

Author : John T. Brittingham
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498207936
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is My Body written by John T. Brittingham and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body of Christ. The body of the anorexic. The altered body. The mutilated body. The Eucharist. Canonical Western thought has had an uneasy relationship with the flesh from Plato forward. Western philosophy has spent its time dwelling upon ideation, perception, cognition, and recollection, and has pursued, de facto if not de jure, a duality of mind and body that continues to this day. Western theology has followed suit, either viewing the body as humiliation, prison, or site of sin. However, movements in the twentieth century--philosophical, theological, and scientific--have all issued challenges to the longstanding tradition. These challenges invite us to reconsider long-held beliefs about cognition, the body, and human experience in the world. In particular, Wesleyan theology and philosophy are called to address our inheritance and to move beyond it. This Is My Body provides a collection of essays addressing the body from broadly Wesleyan, Christian, and philosophical perspectives, examining Wesley's engagement with the body, embodied epistemologies, the body and the Church, and the altered body in relation to Christian Scripture, reason, tradition, and experience.

Author : Ruth A. Tucker
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310877466
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the Church written by Ruth A. Tucker and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history. It tells of events and aspirations, determination and disappointment, patience and achievement that mark the history of daughters of the church from the time of Jesus to the present. The authors have endeavored to present an objective story. The very fact that readers may find themselves surprised now and again by the prominent role of women in certain events and movements proves an inequality that historical narrative has often been guilty of. This is a book about women. It is a setting straight off the record -- a restoring of balance to history that has repeatedly played down the significance of the contributions of women to the theology, the witness, the movements, and the growth of the church. An exegetical study of relevant Scripture passages offers stimulating thought for discussion and for serious reevaluation of historical givens. This volume is enriched by pictures, appendixes, bibliography, and indexes. Like many of the women whose stories it tells, this book has a subdued strength that should not be underestimated.

Author : Carol M. Noren
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666710830
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On to Perfection written by Carol M. Noren and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is distinctive about ministry in an immigrant community, and how has it changed or remained the same over the last 150 years? What happens to the individual and communal religious identity of immigrants in the process of assimilation into the dominant denominational and social culture? On to Perfection explores a neglected doctrine and a largely forgotten chapter in Methodist history through the eyes of Nels O. Westergreen, a nineteenth-century Swedish immigrant preacher in the United States.