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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Download or read book Speaking in Tongues written by Kathleen Schwab and published by Called Writers Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why your prayer language doesn’t sound like real words? And why is it so repetitive? Why does it usually start with the same few words or syllables? Maybe you’ve asked those questions at times. We’ve asked the same questions—and quite a few others—regarding the gifts of tongues and interpretation of tongues. Then we sought the Lord for understanding of these gifts and did our best to operate in them faithfully. He gave us many insights and answers, and then brought it all together in a book. That was something we never really planned. It just sort of happened. We aren’t megachurch pastors. We don’t lead multi-national ministries. But we did have a calling from the Lord to write a book and spread a message. What exactly is that message? Speaking in tongues and interpreting tongues are powerful gifts with practical use for everyday people like us. When people operate in these gifts, God blesses the person operating in the gift, but He also blesses the people around them. Other Questions We Explore in the Book: What does speaking in tongues feel like emotionally? What is the purpose of speaking in tongues? What are the benefits? How does the gift of interpretation work? Are biblical tongues earthly languages, or heavenly languages? Or both? We invite you to explore these questions with us, as you read through our book. Come and Join Us Online: Be sure to check out Called Writers on YouTube for instructions and testimonies about the gifts of tongues and interpretation of tongues. CalledWriters.com/Speaking-in-Tongues also has updated testimonies, a free book excerpt, videos, and other information about speaking in tongues and interpreting tongues. God has continued to move and bless people through these spiritual gifts since publication of the book! Special Offer: This book contains a coupon code for GODSPEED Magazine, a new Christian magazine that covers “God in Action” around the world. So, readers of our book can get a free 90-day trial subscription ($15 value) using the coupon code found in the book. A nice little bonus reward for purchasing this book! About the Publisher: Called Writers Christian Publishing is a new Christian publishing house that seeks to build up the Body of Christ and spread the Gospel. We really appreciate you considering our book. Thank you so very much for your support!
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.
Download or read book Speaking in Tongues written by Timothy Laurito and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking in Tongues explores the phenomenon from a multidisciplinary approach. Uncover how speaking in tongues can be logically defended from various fields of study and be proven to be an essential spiritual practice for Christians today. Through this unique, Spirit-inspired act, practitioners are offered a powerful mode of communication with God that is transformational. Discover the answer to questions like these: -Does a Lukan theology of speaking in tongues support an initial physical evidence position? -What are the Pauline frameworks for how speaking in tongues should operate in the church? -How does speaking in tongues practically benefit the practitioner? -Can speaking in tongues stand up against psychological, sociological, and linguistic scrutiny? -Did speaking in tongues cease from church history? Take a deep dive into the phenomenon of speaking in tongues to learn how a multidisciplinary perspective can empower the practitioner to understand and defend this distinctive practice in fresh ways.
Download or read book Speaking in Tongues written by Felicitas D. Goodman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, is practiced in many different religions around the world. Dismissed as meaningless gibberish by some observers, it has been the subject of only a few fragmentary studies. The work of Felicitas D. Goodman represents the first cross-cultural analysis of this enigmatic behavior, and she brings to her research an extensive background in linguistics and anthropology. Dr. Goodman's fieldwork included living with apostolic congregations in Mexico City, in the Yucatan with Maya Indians, and visits with a congregation in Hammond, Indiana. Her observations were preserved on a remarkable collection of sound recordings and films. For this book she presents a selection of conversion stories that highlights the personality structure and experiences of the speakers. A detailed analysis of the phonological and suprasegmental features of the recorded utterances show a surprising cross-cultural agreement. This led Goodman to believe that glossolalists speak the way they do because their speech behavior is modified in a particular mental state, often termed trance, into which they place themselves. In this light the glossolalia utterance is seen as an artifact of a hyperaroused mental state, or, in Chomskyan terms, as the surface structure of a nonlinguistic deep structure, that of the altered state of consciousness. Goodman describes the hyperaroused mental state as a neurophysiological phenomenon, as well as the associated patterns of movement, and the problems of waking from it. Goodman's diachronic approach yielded equally surprising data about the changes and the waning of the behavior over time. But, as she observes, "we have barely touched the edge of a very large area of inquiry." Her fascinating study opens a number of new avenues of research for anthropologists, such as the study of physiological states accompanying linguistic and ritual behavior.
Download or read book Face to Face with Tongues written by Max D. Younce and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face To Face With Tongues By Dr. Max D. Younce. Can be ordered from www.heritagebbc.com. A verse by verse examination of all the Scriptures concerning the "speaking in tongues", leading to the conclusion this is not for the Church today. Covers all Scripture relating to this subject, and also exposes the falsity of faith-healing as claimed today. This book exposes those who claim to have the "Pentecostal gift of tongues" as nothing more than a counterfeit of spirituality. Pentecostals have never duplicated the working of the Holy Spirit, as depicted in Acts 2, at any time. This book is written in simplicity, yet its scholarship will equip the reader with sound answers to the false emotionalism bound up in the tongues movement. A few of the many things you will learn from the book are: 1. The word "tongues" in the Greek is not the "jibber-jabber" you hear in Pentecostal meetings, but a known language. 2. Tongues ceased with the completion of God's word, the writing of Revelation, in about 96 A.D. 3. No one is ever to pray in tongues. 4. No one is ever to sing in tongues. 5. The difference between the Pentecostal tongues (languages) and those in Corinth. 6. No woman ever had the gift of tongues. 7. Many more facts.
Download or read book Speaking with Tongues written by George Barton Cutten and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When I Spoke in Tongues written by Jessica Wilbanks and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the profound destabilization that comes from losing one's faith--and a young woman's journey to reconcile her lack of belief with her love for her deeply religious family. Growing up in poverty in the rural backwoods of southern Maryland, the Pentecostal church was at the core of Jessica Wilbanks' family life. At sixteen, driven by a desire to discover the world, Jessica walked away from the church--trading her faith for freedom, and driving a wedge between her and her deeply religious family. But fundamentalist faiths haunt their adherents long after belief fades--former believers frequently live in limbo, straddling two world views and trying to reconcile their past and present. Ten years later, struggling with guilt and shame, Jessica began a quest to recover her faith. It led her to West Africa, where she explored the Yorùbá roots of the Pentecostal faith, and was once again swept up by the promises and power of the church. After a terrifying car crash, she finally began the difficult work of forgiving herself for leaving the church and her family and finding her own path. When I Spoke in Tongues is a story of the painful and complicated process of losing one's faith and moving across class divides. And in the end, it's a story of how a family splintered by dogmatic faith can eventually be knit together again through love.
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.
Download or read book Speaking in Tongues written by Watson E. Mills and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speaking in Tongues and Its Significance for the Church written by Larry Christenson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Speaking in Tongues Controversy written by Rick Walston and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books and articles have been written in defense of speaking in tongues as the unmistakable, physical evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Through his careful and thorough analysis of the Pentecostal texts in the Book of Acts, Dr. Walston is challenging this view.
Download or read book Evidence for Speaking in Tongues written by Billy Prewitt and published by TrinityBibleSchool.com. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to revival in the modern church is the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. Evidence for Speaking in Tongues: Fanning the Flames of Revival presents the doctrinal foundation for speaking in tongues concluding that the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is the door to the spiritual gifts and power in ministry. Revival hinges on this experience. If there is one thing that we need, it is a mighty move of the Spirit to revive the Church and sweep countless sinners into the Kingdom. This is ultimately the end goal of Evidence for Speaking in Tongues: Fanning the Flames of Revival. In this book, you will learn answers to these and other questions: Is the Baptism in the Spirit separate from conversion? What is the evidence for the Baptism in the Spirit? Why is speaking in tongues important? How does a person receive the Baptism in the Spirit? Why didn't many of the great preachers in history speak in tongues? What is the difference between praying in tongues and the gift of tongues? How can I lead my church to experience revival? Then you will also learn the intimate connection between the Baptism in the Spirit and the spiritual gifts and spiritually empowered ministry. This connection leads to a spiritually empowered Church which in turn leads to revival. If you have ever wondered why you do not see the gifts of the Spirit manifested in your church, then you must read this book. In it, you will read testimonies of modern miracles that will inspire you to believe for miracles around you. Many people have legitimate questions about the validity of speaking in tongues in the present day. Others, have been dogmatically taught against tongues. In this book, Billy Prewitt, shares from personal experience how to handle criticism related to speaking in tongues. He also answers many of the common arguments that are raised against tongues. Have you met someone who encountered problems when attempting to receive the Baptism in the Spirit? Pulling from over twenty years of experience, Billy Prewitt also identifies common obstacles that people experience when seeking the Baptism in the Spirit and provides reasonable solutions. The book also provides helps for leaders that are seeking revival. These inspirational helps include chapters on how to increase faith through study and also in the Church, how to preach toward revival, and a very personal appeal to seek God on a higher level.
