Blood and Fire : Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church.

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What does it mean to live out the theology presented in the Great Commandment to "love God above all and to love your neighbor as yourself"? In Blood and Fire, Poloma and Hood explore how understandings of godly love function to empower believers. Though godly love may begin as a perceived...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Poloma, Margaret M.
Other Authors: Hood, Ralph W., Jr., 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2008.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Church work with the homeless.
Church work with the poor.
Love > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Pentecostalism.
Postmodernism > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Emerging church movement.
Christianity > 21st century.
Pastorale des personnes sans-abri.
Pastorale des pauvres.
Amour > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Mouvement charismatique.
Mouvement de l'Église émergente.
Christianisme > 21e siècle.
RELIGION > Christianity > Pentecostal & Charismatic.
Christianity
Church work with the homeless
Church work with the poor
Emerging church movement
Love > Religious aspects > Christianity
Pentecostalism
Postmodernism > Religious aspects > Christianity
21st.
American.
Protestantism.
argues.
between.
century.
churches.
divine.
dynamic.
emerging.
essential.
godly.
heart.
human.
love > the.
love.
ongoing.
perceived.
reinvention.
relationship.
response > is.
that.
this.
understand.
vision.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 Godly Love and Post-Modern Christianity: An Introduction; 2 The Man, the Myth, and the Vision; 3 An Emerging Church Family and the Family Business; 4 Charisma and Spiritual Transformation; 5 Godly Love as Emotional Energy; 6 The BnF Family and the Homeless Poor; 7 Ideology and Tradition in Conflict; 8 Smoke, Mirrors, and Holy Madness; 9 Epilogue: A Social Scientific Assessment of Godly Love; Appendix A: Margaret Poloma's Reflections on a Research Journey; Appendix B: Methodological Appendix, with Survey Instrument (B-1) and Scale Construction (B-2).
  • Appendix C: Statistical Appendix, with Bivariate Matrix (C-1) and Multivariate Analysis (C-2)References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; About the Authors.

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