The Missions Theology Of Early Pentecost: Call, Challenge, and Opportunity

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-291
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Daher Kowalski

AbstractThis article explores three historical components of Pentecostal theology that influenced Pentecostal missionary women by examining missions after the Pentecostal revival of the early twentieth century. This article presents four case studies of such Pentecostals and their responses to Pentecostal experiences and missionary careers for ongoing theological consideration about what it means to 'Go into all the world' as a Pentecostal. According to this study, the Pentecostal experience and reliance on the Holy Spirit was a significant part of Pentecostal women's call to and empowerment for missions, in facing the challenges of missionary service with Pentecostal eschatology, and in following the biblical mandate and narrative to serve in the power of the Spirit with gospel proclamation and accompanying 'signs and wonders'.

Author(s):  
Opoku Onyinah

A new set of Pentecostal renewal started in the early twentieth century leading to the proliferation of Pentecostal denominations, and renewal movements within the then existing denominations. The beginning of this Pentecostal renewal has often been linked with the Bethel Bible School, which was started by Charles Fox Parham, and amplified by William Joseph Seymour at Azusa Street, Los Angeles, in the US. This article brings another dimension of the renewal by demonstrating that, for the Catholic Charismatics the outbreak of the Holy Spirit in the early twentieth century was partly an answer to the prayer of Pope Leo XIII. In addition, the Catholic Charismatic advocates consider the Pentecostal experience, dubbed Duquesne Weekend, which led to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movements as the answer to the prayer of Pope John XXIII at the Second Vatican. The considerations of the Catholic Charismatics are presented apparently as an affirmation of the sovereignty of God over his Church and the world.


Author(s):  
Victor V. Bychkov ◽  
Oleg V. Bychkov

At the turn of the twentieth-century Russian culture experienced a spiritual-religious Renaissance, which was accompanied by a rise of religiously oriented aesthetics. Generally, this aesthetics amounted to an awareness of the highest role that aesthetic experience, and in particular art, plays in human life and culture. Within this aesthetics, beauty, the beautiful, art, artistic creativity and symbols, and the artist-creator were viewed in a spiritually heightened and almost sacred way. Beauty was considered as the highest value and often as an essential trait of God himself, Sophia, the Wisdom of God, the Holy Spirit, the Theotokos, or the Universal Church. Beauty was also considered to be the most important principle of the existence of the human race, or as an essential and divine foundation of culture and art. Art itself was conceptualized as divinely inspired creativity, and the artist as a divinely chosen conduit of spiritual ideas and images, which can be expressed exclusively in artistic forms; as a theurge, whose mind and hand are guided by divine powers. Finally, this aesthetics viewed artistic creativity as that ideal paradigm which, by providing aesthetic principles, serves as the foundation of human life, of the culture of the future, and of the final stage of the divine creation of the world—the creation of the Kingdom of God on earth—that will be taken over by artists-creators-theurges.


1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J.D. Taljard ◽  
P. J. Van der Merwe

Some basic concepts of Johanna Brandt’s thinking Johanna Brandt was the wife of a well-known Transvaal minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk during the first half of the twentieth century. During 1916 she had a number of visionary experiences which influenced the rest of her life. She was visited by a ‘celestial messenger’ and finally by the ‘Son o f G o d ’ himself who anointed her with the gift of prophecy and called upon her to devote her life to proclaming the message of salvation and hope to South Africa and the world. She entertained some highly unorthodox theological ideas: She reformulated the Trinity as God the Father, God the Son (Christ) and the Holy Spirit (God the Mother). Apart from God transcendent (explained in pantheistic and naturalistic terms) she also spoke of God immanent, that is in man. Her (mystic) message of salvation was: Man must seek heaven within himself.


2021 ◽  
pp. 000332862110571
Author(s):  
Ross Kane

For Anglicans, tradition entails continuity with a past mediated into present circumstances in ways that ever reshape understandings of God’s work in the world. Tradition is a concept with wide-ranging connotations that have changed over Anglican history. This essay highlights poignant moments that especially shaped contemporary Anglican notions of tradition, such as the medieval Conciliar Movement, the contributions of Richard Hooker, the Oxford Movement, and twentieth century ecumenism. Today Anglicanism’s global identity is reshaping its understandings of tradition, as the Holy Spirit reveals an ever wider and more intercultural picture of Christ. Through the process of handing on faith, our tradition reforms and grows.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony G. Moon

Bishop J.H. King, an early twentieth-century Pentecostal Holiness Church leader, in some respects explained Spirit baptism in more ‘expansive’ terms than characterized Classical Pentecostal tradition in the United States in his time and later. In his theological and devotional writings are some of the same ‘expansive’ emphases Frank D. Macchia enunciates in his 2006 groundbreaking work on Spirit baptism, Baptized in the Spirit: A Global Pentecostal Theology. Although King’s Spirit-baptismal theology was traditionally Pentecostal in important ways, there are some interesting thematic parallels between Macchia’s ‘expansive’ Spirit baptism theological proposal and the very modest (in comparison) treatments of the topic by King. The similarities relate to the baptism in the Holy Spirit as a Trinitarian act, as an infilling of divine love, and in connection with the latter, as a generator of a rich ecclesiastical corporate life of koinonia.


Pneuma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 340-343
Author(s):  
Roger D. Cotton

Abstract Numbers 11 is a foundational passage for OT pneumatology and supports pentecostal theology and practice. There, God, through Moses, expressed his plan that all believers should be empowered for prophetic ministry by the Holy Spirit. That experience of the seventy elders involved a kind of prophesying that was probably praise and prayer in tongues, as in Acts 2.


2018 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 374-392
Author(s):  
Jane Shaw

This article looks at the ways in which the Panacea Society – a heterodox, millenarian group based in Bedford during the inter-war years – spread its ideas: through personal, familial and shared belief networks across the British empire; by building new modes of attracting adherents, in particular a global healing ministry; and by shipping its publications widely. It then examines how the society appealed to its (white) members in the empire in three ways: through its theology, which put Britain at the centre of the world; by presuming the necessity and existence of a ‘Greater Britain’ and the British empire, while in so many other quarters these entities were being questioned in the wake of World War I; and by a deliberately cultivated and nostalgic notion of ‘Englishness’. The Panacea Society continued and developed the idea of the British empire as providential at a time when the idea no longer held currency in most circles. The article draws on the rich resource of letters in the Panacea Society archive to contribute to an emerging area of scholarship on migrants’ experience in the early twentieth-century British empire (especially the dominions) and their sense of identity, in this case both religious and British.


1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-309
Author(s):  
Joseph M. McShane

Throughout his career John Carroll supported the American religious settlement with surprising and consistent enthusiasm. Indeed, his enthusiasm for the religious liberty of the new republic seemed to be boundless. Thus he never tired of celebrating and advertising its benefits. He assured American Catholics that it was “a signal instance of [God's] mercy” and a product of the active intervention of Divine Providence and the Holy Spirit, who have “tutored the minds of men” in such a way that Catholics could now freely worship God according to the “dictates of conscience.” Flushed with pride, he even predicted that if America were wise enough to abide by the terms of this providential arrangement, the nation would become a beacon to the world, proving that “general and equal toleration…is the most effectual method to bring all denominations of Christians to an unity of faith.” Finally, confident that the extraordinary freedom accorded American Catholics would make the American church “the most flourishing portion of the church,” he urged European states and churches to follow America's inspired lead.


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