Pentecostals in the 21st Century

Identity, Beliefs, Praxis

Corneliu Constantineanu, Christopher James Scobie, Corneliu Constantineanu, Christopher James Scobie, Constantineanu, Scobie

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781532616716
  9781498240666
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498240659
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contributors
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Pentecostal Identity
• Chapter 3: Some Aspects of Hermeneutics in the Pentecostal Tradition
• Chapter 4: Sacrament or Ordinance?
• Chapter 5: Towards a Pentecostal Perspective on Salvation
• Chapter 6: How, Why, and When Should Someone be Baptized? What Is Its Relationship to Salvation?
• Chapter 7: The Baptism in the Holy Spirit
• Chapter 8: The Gifts of the Spirit
• Chapter 9: The Church
• Chapter 10: A Pentecostal Proposal for Discipleship
• Chapter 11: Fulfillment of God’s Promise in the Soon-to-Return King
• Chapter 12: Pentecostalism and Ecumenism
• Chapter 13: The Theological Motivations for Pentecostal Mission
• Chapter 14: Mission, Education, and Public Engagement