Download or read book Pentecostal Sacraments Encountering God at the Altar written by Daniel Tomberlin and published by Cherohala Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a variety of studies have treated individual sacramental practices in Pentecostalism, in this volume Daniel Tomberlin offers a full-length treatment of the theology and practice of Pentecostal sacraments. The study draws on the strength of decades of pastoral practice and significant experience as a theological educator in the formation of local pastors. Grounded in the conviction that 'encounter with God at the altar' is primary for Pentecostal worship, Tomberlin explores the Spirit as 'the Spirit of Grace' and the role of Christ and the Spirit in sacramental practices, before turning his attention to the individual sacraments of anointing with oil, water baptism, the Lord's Supper, and footwashing. Drawing on early Pentecostal literature, the writings of early Christian authors, and pastoral practice, Tomberlin goes on to contextualize each practice in Scripture. The volume concludes with an empirical study of the thoughts and practices of several Pentecostal pastors in order to assess the impact of this study on the life of the church.

Download or read book Pentecostal Sacraments Revised Edition written by Daniel Tomberlin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a sacramental encounter. The embodied spirituality of Pentecostalism, expressed in the doctrine of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, suggests that Pentecostalism is essentially sacramental. Sacraments are spiritual graces and those who participate in faith encounter the "real presence" of Christ through the Holy Spirit. As we approach the altar to participate in sacramental worship, we do so "in the Spirit." The Holy Spirit makes us aware of heavenly realities, and we experience heavenly mysteries. The primary Pentecostal sacraments are Water Baptism, The Lord's Supper, Footwashing, and the Anointed Touch - Laying on hands. These sacred actions are not mere symbols, but acts of worship in which Christ is present and the Holy Spirit is active. This revised edition includes more than 50 pages of new material derived from the Pentecostal Worship Assessment which included over 300 participants. The assessment demonstrates that Pentecostals are intuitively sacramental and that the celebration of sacraments enriches Pentecostal worship. "Daniel Tomberlin . . . dares to say that Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Feet Washing and Anointing with oil are all sacramental means of grace enabling us to remember, experience and anticipate the mysteries of salvation. Together they symbolize the Christian's journey from initiation to glorification and our need for continual cleansing along the way. Drawing from ecumenical dialogues, scholarly research, devotional reflections and 30 years of pastoral experience, Tomberlin adds valuable insights to the discussion on what it means to be Pentecostal and how Spirit filled believers view the practices Christ instituted." Dr. Mark Williams Church of God, Cleveland, TN ." . . a book that takes a new direction in commending the sacraments to a Pentecostal audience . . . It is hard to covey the richness of the tapestry that Tomberlin brings together, that inspires both the mind and heart, the scholar and the practitioner, the teacher and the worshipper. Deeply rooted in the Church of God tradition and yet ecumenical in engagement. From my charismatic-catholic-evangelical Anglican background I found it quite a wonderful stimulus to prayer and further thought." Rev. Andy Lord, Ph.D. Church of England Nottingham, United Kingdom "This is the most academically sound and instructive work in popular theology I have ever read . . . Daniel Tomberlin encourages Pentecostal ministers to forsake their frequently minimalist sacramental devotion and adopt a comprehensive theology of the sacraments-specifically, water baptism, Lord's Supper, footwashing, and anointing with oil/laying on of hands. He exposes non-specialists to some major theoretical questions surrounding sacraments, just as he raises some important practical questions that professional theologians should also consider. His investigations are historically informed, balanced with numerous accounts from thinkers in early Christianity and early Pentecostalism . . . In light of its potential to transform worship in local churches when critically appropriated, it will have been worth his effort if only ten Pentecostal pastors read it and learn from it. May 10,000 do so." Christopher Stephenson, Ph.D. Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee Pneuma: The Journal for the Society for Pentecostal Studies (33:3)

Download or read book Encountering God at the Altar written by Daniel Tomberlin and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most Pentecostal churches, the altar call is the central event of the worship service. Sinners are encouraged to come forward to the altar to "pray through" to salvation. Believers are encouraged to come to the altar to pray for sanctification, or to "pray through" to the baptism in the Holy Spirit. During the altar service, those who are sick, or otherwise in need, are encouraged to come to the altar. There the church elders will anoint with oil, lay their hands upon the sick, and pray for healing. The celebration of the sacraments in Pentecostal worship is an opportunity to invite the saints of God once again to the altar to encounter the Holy Spirit in the celebration of water baptism, the Lord's Supper, footwashing, and the laying on of hands. The sacraments are an ongoing altar call in which the believer encounters God in Christ and through the Holy Spirit. This book is an abridged version of Pentecostal Sacraments: Encountering God at the Altar (2015). Pentecostal Sacraments was written as a theological introduction to Pentecostal sacramental worship for an academic audience. The book has been well received, and I am grateful. However, many pastors have suggested that I prepare an edition for the general reader that could be used in the local church as a small group study. With that in mind I have prepared Encountering God at the Altar. This book is much shorter in length. I have excluded the academic footnotes, theological language, and references to Greek words. Also, I have removed the supporting writings of the ancient and medieval theologians. I have kept the writings of early Pentecostals because their words are essential in understanding Pentecostal spirituality. When referencing these writers I have used parenthetical documentation and abbreviated the sources. I have rewritten portions of the manuscript for a general audience. I am hopeful that by providing an edition for the general reader many Pentecostal worshipers will discover a new appreciation for the sacred acts of worship. Chapters: 1 - Encountering God at the Altar 2 - The Spirit of Grace 3 - The Anointed Touch 4 - Water Baptism 5 - The Lord's Supper 6 - Foot Washing 7 - Recovering Lost Treasures

Download or read book Encountering God at the Altar written by Daniel Tomberlin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pentecostal Theology written by Wolfgang Vondey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 theology worldwide. In this volume, Wolfgang Vondey suggests an account of Pentecostal theology that is genuine to Pentecostals worldwide while allowing for different adaptation and explication among the various Pentecostal groups. He argues that Pentecostal theology is fundamentally concerned with the renewal of the Christian life identified by the transforming work of the Holy Spirit and directed toward the kingdom of God. The book unfolds in two main parts illustrating the full gospel story and theology. Eleven chapters identify the spiritual underpinnings and motivations for Pentecostal theology, formulate a Pentecostal theology of action, translate, apply, and exemplify Pentecostal practices and experiences, and integrate Pentecostal theology in the wider Christian tradition.

Download or read book Embracing Contemplation written by John H. Coe and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a Christian life lived "by the Spirit" look like? For many Christians throughout history, fulfilling Paul's command in Galatians 5:25 included a form of contemplation and prayer that leads to spiritual formation. But in large part, contemporary Christians—perhaps especially evangelicals—seem to have lost or forgotten about this treasure from their own tradition. Bringing together scholars and practitioners of spiritual formation from across the Protestant spectrum, this volume offers a distinctly evangelical consideration of the benefits of contemplation. The contributors draw on historical examples from the church—including John Calvin, Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards, and John Wesley—to consider how contemplative prayer can shape Christian living today. The result is a robust guide to embracing contemplation that will help Christians as they seek to keep in step with the Spirit.

Download or read book Do this in Remembrance of Me written by Bryan D. Spinks and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryan Spinks is one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of liturgy and to have a comprehensive work by him on the Eucharist is a major catch for SCM. Like the author’s previous work on Baptism, this will become a standard work about the Eucharist and Eucharistic theology worldwide. The book, a study of the history and theology of the Eucharist, is the fifth volume in the SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy series and will help to establish the series as a place for landmark books of liturgical scholarship.

Download or read book Scripting Pentecost written by Mark J. Cartledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripting Pentecost explores and develops an analysis of worship and liturgy in Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions. Organized into three main sections, history, theology, and contemporary practice, the first section quarries the historical trajectories of classic Pentecostalism, the Charismatic movement, Third-Wave, and Oneness Pentecostalism. Particular attention is given to the liturgical approaches of some of the earliest leaders, including William J. Seymour, Alexander Boddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson. The second section, constructive theology, offers theological approaches to liturgical studies from Pentecostal and Charismatic perspectives. In this section the Pentecostal and Charismatic tradition is advanced and extended by an interaction with ecumenical sources. The third section, case studies in contemporary worship theology and practice, examines the actual performance of liturgy through selected global case studies chosen to reflect a diversity of ecclesial practice in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and Oceania.

Download or read book Network Church written by Andy Lord and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostal churches have grown over the last century but only a limited amount has been written about their ecclesiology. Much of the existing work focuses on congregational models and contemporary practice. This book argues the need for a pentecostal systematic approach to ecclesiology. Utilising the method of Amos Yong a pentecostal ecclesiology based on a network church structure is developed. Systematic issues of catholicity are addressed through mission insights on partnership, and a hospitable approach to contextualisation is developed. This book, therefore, suggests new ways forward in pentecostal studies and ecclesiology.

Download or read book Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology: Interpretations, Intersections, and Inspirations is a collection of essays from both globally recognized and newer scholars on the complex relationship between Pentecostalism and the Ecumenical Movement.

Download or read book Karl Barth and Pentecostal Theology written by Frank D. Macchia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume evaluate and build on Barth's theology from the perspective of Pentecostal theology and, thereby, contribute to constructive Pentecostal systematic theology by using Barth as a valuable dialogue partner. At present, a theological conversation of Pentecostals with Barth does not exist and this volume fills this void. More widely, it will aid all those who seek a convergence of the Word and the Spirit in theology. Barth and Pentecostals share some important common theological interests. Barth's mature theology has a decidedly christological emphasis. Likewise, historically, Pentecostals have often spoken of a “full gospel” with an emphasis on Christ as savior, healer, baptizer (in the Spirit), and soon-and-coming King, with some Pentecostal traditions also adding a fifth emphasis on Christ the sanctifier. Furthermore, near the end of his life, Barth anticipated “the possibility of a theology of the third article, a theology where the Holy Spirit would dominate and be decisive.” The realization of Barth's dream is no doubt coming to pass in part through the development of Pentecostal theology in as much as pneumatological theology (exploring how pneumatology affects, supplements, and might reform other doctrines) is an emerging paradigm for Pentecostal theology.

Download or read book Evangelicals Worship and Participation written by Alan Rathe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In discussions of worship, the term ’participation’ covers a lot of ground. It refers not only to concrete acts in gathered liturgy, but also to some of the loftiest claims of Christian theology. In this book, Alan Rathe probes the ways in which North American evangelicals have in recent years regarded the landscape of participation. Rathe presents a broad review of evangelical worship literature through a lens borrowed from medieval theology. This brings into surprising focus not only evangelical understandings but also evangelical identities and the historical traditions they reflect, and offers fresh perspectives on such current theological concerns as God’s triunity, missio Dei, and the practical theology of participation. Offering a fresh contribution to a young but important discipline, the liturgically-informed study of evangelical worship practice, this book reconnects the evangelical tradition to the ’Great Tradition’ and in the process re-appropriates classic concepts that are full of promise for contemporary ecumenical dialogue.

Download or read book Evangelicals Worship and Participation written by Dr Alan Rathe and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book probes the ways in which turn-of-the-millennium evangelicals in North America have regarded the landscape of participation. Rathe views relevant evangelical literature by looking through a surprising lens borrowed from medieval theology, bringing into focus not only evangelical understandings, but also the identities and historical traditions they reflect. One of the broadest reviews yet made of evangelical worship literature, this book reconnects evangelical tradition to the “Great Tradition” and in the process re-appropriates classic concepts that are full of promise for contemporary ecumenical dialogue.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Pentecostal Theology written by Wolfgang Vondey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity has increased dramatically in recent decades, and a diverse array of disciplines have begun to address a range of elements of these movements. Yet, there exists very little understanding of Pentecostal theology, and it is not uncommon to encounter stereotypes and misperceptions. Addressing this gap in current research, The Routledge Handbook of Pentecostal Theology is an exceptional reference source to the key topics, challenges, and debates in this growing field of study and is the first collection of its kind to offer a comprehensive presentation and critical discussion of this subject. Comprising over forty chapters written by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts: Contextualizing Pentecostal Theology Sources Theological Method Doctrines and Practices Conversations and Challenges. These sections take the reader through a comprehensive introduction to what Pentecostals believe and how they practice their faith. Looking at issues such as the core teachings of Pentecostalism concerning Spirit baptism, divine healing, or eschatology; unique practices, such as spiritual warfare and worship; and less discussed issues, such as social justice and gender, each chapter builds towards a nuanced and global picture of the theology of the Pentecostal movement. The Routledge Handbook of Pentecostal Theology is essential reading for students and researchers in Pentecostal Studies, World Christianity, and Theology as well as scholars working in contemporary Religious Studies.

Download or read book Pentecostals in the 21st Century written by Corneliu Constantineanu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Manifesting the Spirit written by Mbanyane Mhango and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fewer subjects have generated intense debate in Christian thought and practice than sacraments. A reductionist view of the term "sacrament" often causes this debate and engenders tension between the so-called "sacramental" and "non-sacramental" churches largely based on whether one views the Water Baptism and the Lord's Supper as ordinances or as sacraments (means of encountering God). Drawing from the theological view that Christ is the primordial sacrament of the encounter with God, this book posits that all believers are sacraments of an encounter with God. This claim has ecumenical import. Conversion, Baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Empowerment, Gifts, and Fruit of the Spirit, Worship, Testimonies of Triumphs or Sufferings, Eschatological Hope, etc., enable believers to manifest the Spirit. Pentecost inaugurated all believers as both macrocosmic and microcosmic sacrament(s). The notion of sacramentality of believers intersects with the theological triad of Orthodoxy, Orthopraxy, and Orthopathy.

Download or read book The Influence of Music on the Development of the Church of God Cleveland Tennessee written by Benson Vaughan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the influence of music on the development of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee). This narrative is historically driven, but relies upon an interdisciplinary approach to draw on the insights of ecclesiology, theology, liturgiology, church development, and especially music. This study utilizes a chronological and systematic approach to the relationship between music and the Church of God in the United States during the first 125 years of the denomination’s history, from 1886 to 2011. For over a century, music has been an often-neglected dialogue partner at the table of academic discussion and this research argues for recognition and a proper place in Pentecostal history. Along with primary and secondary sources, the important element of “living archives” is investigated in this work; these are interviews with people who participated in historical music events in the Church of God. The book also relies upon musical examples to explore the influence of music upon the shaping of the denomination’s history and theology.