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Early Pentecostals on nonviolence and social justice : a reader /
This book documents some of the pacifist and social justice convictions of early Pentecostals, many of whom were called traitors, slackers, cranks, and weak-minded people for extending Jesus' love beyond racial, ethnic, and national boundaries. They wrestled with citizenship and Jesus' pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Eugene :
Wipf and Stock Publishers,
2016.
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| Colección: | Pentecostals, Peacemaking, and Social Justice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book documents some of the pacifist and social justice convictions of early Pentecostals, many of whom were called traitors, slackers, cranks, and weak-minded people for extending Jesus' love beyond racial, ethnic, and national boundaries. They wrestled with citizenship and Jesus' prohibitions on killing. They rejected nation-worship, war profiteering, wage slavery, patriotic indoctrination, militarism, and Wall Street politics--and many suffered for it. They criticized governments and churches that, in wartime, endorsed the very thing forbidden in their sacred book and civil laws. They r. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781498278911 1498278914 9781498278928 1498278922 |