Speaking In Tongues A Critical Historical Examination

Author : Philip E. Blosser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166673778X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination, Volume 2 written by Philip E. Blosser and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three carefully researched volumes, this ground-breaking study examines the gift of tongues through two thousand years of church history. Starting in the present and working back in time, these volumes consider (1) the modern redefinition of “tongues” as a private prayer language; (2) the church’s perennial understanding of “tongues” as ordinary human languages; and (3) the Corinthian “tongues,” which, in light of Jewish liturgical tradition, turn out to have been a Semitic liturgical language requiring bilingual interpreters. This second volume tracks the perception and practice of tongues back through the first eighteen hundred years of church history, demonstrating that “tongue-speaking” was always active but puzzlingly different from today’s glossolalia. From Pope Benedict XIV’s detailed treatise in the 1700s, it works back through long-forgotten scholastic and patristic debates to the earliest Christian writers such as Irenaeus. No other resource on the subject approaches the depth and scope of the present volume.

Author : Philip E. Blosser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666797626
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination written by Philip E. Blosser and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three carefully researched volumes, this ground-breaking study examines the gift of tongues through 2,000 years of church history. Starting in the present and working back in time, these volumes consider (1) the modern redefinition of "tongues" as a private prayer language; (2) the church's perennial understanding of "tongues" as ordinary human languages; and (3) the Corinthian "tongues," which, in light of Jewish liturgical tradition, turn out to have been a foreign liturgical language (Hebrew or Aramaic) requiring bilingual interpreters. In the first volume, the authors establish that modern glossolalia, far from being a supernatural gift enjoyed by certain believers since the time of Pentecost and undergoing a resurgence in modern times, has no precedent in church life prior to the nineteenth century. They discuss why German theologians, responding to the Irvingite revival, coined the term "glossolalia" in the 1830s; why Pentecostals between 1906-8 quietly began redefining "tongues" to mean a heavenly language unintelligible to human beings but pleasing to God, instead of foreign languages useful for evangelism; why Protestant cessationists believed miraculous tongues had ceased; and why interpolated idioms like "unknown tongues" in Protestant Bibles were aimed originally at Rome's use of Latin.

Author : Philip E. Blosser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666797642
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination, Volume 2 written by Philip E. Blosser and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three carefully researched volumes, this ground-breaking study examines the gift of tongues through two thousand years of church history. Starting in the present and working back in time, these volumes consider (1) the modern redefinition of “tongues” as a private prayer language; (2) the church’s perennial understanding of “tongues” as ordinary human languages; and (3) the Corinthian “tongues,” which, in light of Jewish liturgical tradition, turn out to have been a Semitic liturgical language requiring bilingual interpreters. This second volume tracks the perception and practice of tongues back through the first eighteen hundred years of church history, demonstrating that “tongue-speaking” was always active but puzzlingly different from today’s glossolalia. From Pope Benedict XIV’s detailed treatise in the 1700s, it works back through long-forgotten scholastic and patristic debates to the earliest Christian writers such as Irenaeus. No other resource on the subject approaches the depth and scope of the present volume.

Author : Philip E. Blosser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666737771
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination written by Philip E. Blosser and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three carefully researched volumes, this ground-breaking study examines the gift of tongues through 2,000 years of church history. Starting in the present and working back in time, these volumes consider (1) the modern redefinition of “tongues” as a private prayer language; (2) the church’s perennial understanding of “tongues” as ordinary human languages; and (3) the Corinthian “tongues,” which, in light of Jewish liturgical tradition, turn out to have been a foreign liturgical language (Hebrew or Aramaic) requiring bilingual interpreters. In the first volume, the authors establish that modern glossolalia, far from being a supernatural gift enjoyed by certain believers since the time of Pentecost and undergoing a resurgence in modern times, has no precedent in church life prior to the nineteenth century. They discuss why German theologians, responding to the Irvingite revival, coined the term “glossolalia” in the 1830s; why Pentecostals between 1906–8 quietly began redefining “tongues” to mean a heavenly language unintelligible to human beings but pleasing to God, instead of foreign languages useful for evangelism; why Protestant cessationists believed miraculous tongues had ceased; and why interpolated idioms like “unknown tongues” in Protestant Bibles were aimed originally at Rome’s use of Latin.

Author : Gerald Hovenden
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781841273068
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Tongues written by Gerald Hovenden and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of "Speaking in Tongues"is examined in its religio-historical context. Part 1 considers recent scholarly studies of "inspired speech" in the ancient world where parallels have been alleged with the early Christian experience as recorded in the New testament. In Part 2 both the Lucan and Pauline references to "tongues" are considered in detail with a view to discerning the significance of the phenomenon for the church its its mission and worship. In the light of this, practical implications are drawn for the church in the 21st century.

Author : Katherine Duke Johnson
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781798965184
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Tongues: The History of Glossolalia from Early Christianity to the 21st Century written by Katherine Duke Johnson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking in tongues has been a hot-button topic for evangelicals for quite some time. One side challenging the efficacy of its practice within churches today and the other side wholeheartedly embracing it's practice as a standard for Spirit-filled living. The historical record of glossolalia is not without controversy. The faithful believe that its inception stems from the book of Acts with the Holy Spirit descending upon faithful as fire. While there is evidence that speaking with tongue was not confined to the day of Pentecost and existed both within and outside of the Jewish and Christian traditions alike. However, Pentecostals would say that this was not an authentic practice in earlier forms prior to the New Testament church.With the emergence of Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Churches of the 21st century, the question of biblical credence of glossolalia is one which clergy continue to grapple with and brings out deep feelings on both sides--continualist and cessationist. I Timothy 2:15 reads ..".study to show our selves approved unto God a workman that doesn't need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." He would only want us to study, pray and have an open heart to whatever that practice reveals. With that, I believe that it is a worthwhile endeavor to test the viability of speaking in tongues within the framework of the continuity of its practice within history from early Christianity through the present. The Bible illustrates several instances of speaking in tongues in the New Testament church. If study of doctrine and history bears out that its practice continues through the present, then it is plausible that the intent is that believers continue its practice in modern day church. Conversely, if the cessation of its practice in history and the biblical interpretation agrees, then the cessationist view is plausible. Again, God is not unnerved by any question, but our finite understanding gives Him the opportunity to provide Himself strong, omnipotent and omniscient for all the world to see.

Author : Robert Chandler Dalton
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258285692
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tongues Like As of Fire written by Robert Chandler Dalton and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael S. Gorham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875803135
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Soviet Tongues written by Michael S. Gorham and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the classical dialogues of Plato to current political correctness, manipulating language to advance a particular set of values and ideas has been a time-honored practice. During times of radical social and political change, the terms of debate themselves become sharply contested: how people reject, redefine, and reappropriate key words and phrases gives important symbolic shape to their vision of the future. Especially in cataclysmic times, who one is or wants to be is defined by how one writes and speaks. The language culture of early Soviet Russia marked just such a tenuous state of symbolic affairs. Partly out of necessity, partly in the spirit of change, Bolshevik revolutionaries cast off old verbal models of identity and authority and replaced them with a cacophony of new words, phrases, and communicative contexts intended to define and help legitimatize the new Soviet order. Pitched to an audience composed largely of semiliterate peasants, however, the new Bolshevik message often fell on deaf ears. Embraced by numerous sympathetic and newly empowered citizens, the voice of Bolshevism also evoked a variety of less desirable reactions, ranging from confusion and willful subversion to total disregard. Indeed, the earliest years of Bolshevik rule produced a communication gap that held little promise for the makings of a proletarian dictatorship. This gap drew the attention of language authorities--most notably Maxim Gorky--and gave rise to a society-wide debate over the appropriate voice of the new Soviet state and its citizenry. Drawing from history, literature, and sociology, Gorham offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of this critical debate, demonstrating how language ideologies and practices were invented, contested, and redefined. Speaking in Soviet Tongues shows how early Soviet language culture gave rise to unparalleled verbal creativity and utopian imagination while sowing the seeds for perhaps the most notorious forms of Orwellian "newspeak" known to the modern era.

Author : Merrill F. Unger
Publisher : Kregel Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780825496950
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Testament Teaching on Tongues written by Merrill F. Unger and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent summary of the biblical content on speaking in tongues, from a non-charismatic position. Includes a helpful bibliography.

Author : Jason Cockayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781690081791
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theology of Tongues written by Jason Cockayne and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among evangelicals the sensitive topic of speaking in tongues is often avoided in conversation due to the vast differences in beliefs and practices of Christians across the globe. Over the past century, the belief in and practice of speaking in glossia or "ecstatic utterances" has grown to be accepted by the greater Christian community. Yet, those who practice tongues and those who do not both struggle with a theological definition and understanding of this spiritual gift. While Christians agree that God gave the gift of "tongues" in the first century, many are left to question the purpose of these "tongues," how they were to be used, and if this gift of the Spirit continues to be normative today.The purpose of this book is to provide a concise exposition of speaking in tongues through a biblical and historical analysis. "A Theology of Tongues" seeks to be sensitive to the differing positions in this debate, but give a fair and thorough treatment on speaking in tongues. Through these short pages, the reader will be confronted with the truths needed to take a biblical stance on this topic. Review: "While the author writes convincingly on his perspective/conviction on the issue of tongues, he does so very fairly and from a clear look at Scripture and of history. Would recommend this as a cause for careful consideration by those who have been taught to practice speaking in "tongues" and as a reference for those concerned with unhelpful teaching on the subject."- Scott Z