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Pentecostal politics in a secular world : the life and leadership of Lewi Pethrus / Joel Halldorf.
Van Pelt Library BX8762.Z8 P474813 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halldorf, Joel, 1980- author.
- Series:
- CHARIS: Christianity and renewal--interdisciplinary studies
- Christianity and renewal - interdisciplinary studies
- Standardized Title:
- Biskop Lewi Pethrus. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pethrus, Lewi, 1884-1974.
- Pethrus, Lewi.
- Pentecostals--Sweden--Biography.
- Pentecostals.
- Pentecostal churches--Political activity.
- Pentecostal churches.
- Political participation.
- Sweden.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: A Life Bent Toward Politics
- A Working-class Pentecostal
- Saints in a Secular World
- Lewi Pethrus and Swedish Pentecostalism
- Pentecostal Politics
- What's in a Word?
- 2. Born and Born Again: The Making of a Counter-Cultural Identity
- Born but Not Baptized
- Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism
- Born Again
- From Worker to Preacher
- Baptized in the Holy Spirit
- Pastor in Lidkoping
- pt. I Life in the Pentecostal Polis
- 3. Visions of the Polis: From Denominational Bureaucracy to Spiritual Community
- Baptist Congregationalism
- Ecclesiology and Open Communion
- Fellowship Against Formal Membership
- The Origins of Non-denominationalism
- Lewi Pethrus the Romantic
- A Romantic Church
- 4. The Capital of Power: Charisma, Friendship, and Institutions
- More Than Merely Charisma
- Symbolic Capital
- Relational Capital
- Institutional Capital
- The Journey to the Top
- Working for the Vision
- 5. Escaping the Iron Cage: Pentecostalism and the Malaise of Modernity
- The Politics of the Polis
- Into Modernity
- Out of the Iron Cage
- Network of Entrepreneurs
- Authenticity and the Absence of Sacramental Theology
- The Swedish Theory of Love
- pt. II Sustaining a Common Life: Strife and Political Structures
- 6. Flirting with Fanaticism: Ecstasy, Authenticity, and Middle-Class Respectability
- Keeping Fanaticism at Bay
- Enthusiasm: A Short History
- Ecstasy and Middle-Class Modernity
- Apollonian Rationality and Dionysian Release
- Theological Norms and Borders
- The Teaching Office of the Old Guard
- Lewi Pethrus as Teaching Office
- Divine Healing and Human Suffering
- Warning for Heresy
- Pethrus and Prophecy
- Sven Lidman: The Inexperienced Teaching Office
- Pethrus and Ecstasy
- Controlling the Fire
- 7. Lonely at the Top: The Cost of Leadership
- Decades of Expansion
- Explaining Emigration
- The Departure
- Nursed in Lisbon
- The Arrival
- Into the Dark
- The Decision
- Turning Point
- Different Reasons
- The Cross as Calling
- The Cost of Leadership
- 8. All About the Money? Saving Souls or Funding CEOs
- Bureaucracy Causes the Rupture
- Pentecostalism and Capitalism
- Community, Institutions, and Pentecostal Spirituality
- From Associations to Corporations
- The Battle with Lidman
- The Traits of a Leader
- 9. Church Politics for Revivalism: How to Contain Latter Rain
- The New Order of the Latter Rain
- Bringing Over the Americans
- Spirits, Demons, and Healings on Stage
- The Rise of the Renewal Revival
- The Fall of the Renewal Revival
- Church Politics
- Containing Latter Rain
- Church Discipline in a Non-Denominational Movement
- pt. III Pentecostal Politics in the World
- 10. Mission in Modernity: Large-Scale Projects and Episcopal Structures
- One City, One Church
- Pethrus as a Theologian
- Competitors on the Religious Market
- Modern Models for Mission
- The Episcopal Structure
- Formalization of the Episcopal Structure
- Leadership at Conferences
- Collegiality and Coups
- Ecumenism and the Preferential Option for the Spirit
- 11. Dreaming of a Christian Nation: Pentecostal Party Politics
- Interpreting the Political Turn
- Pethrus's Explanation
- Politics as Mission
- Saving Civilization
- Bringing the Nineteenth Century Back
- Ahead of the Curve
- Politics Against Secularization
- Let's Have a Party!
- Pethrus the Populist
- Why Lewi Pethrus Never Became Billy Graham
- The End
- 12. Epilogue: Swedish Evangelicalism and the American Religious Right (Or: Why Swedish Pentecostals Are Not Trumpists)
- Democracy in Sweden
- Evangelicals Against Pre-modern Politics
- Evangelicalism and the Worker's Movement
- The Great Reversal in American Evangelicalism
- From Moral Majority to Culture Wars
- Swedish Evangelicals in Twentieth-Century Politics
- Christian Minorities or Pillars of the Nation?
- The Future.
- Notes:
- Revised and expanded translation of Biskop Lewi Pethrus.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3030470504
- 9783030470500
- OCLC:
- 1148887757
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