African Pentecostalism and eschatological expectations : he is coming back again! / by Marius Nel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nel, Marius, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostalism--Africa--History.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

"The Pentecostalisation of African Christianity has been called the African Reformation of the past thirty years. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement characterised by its emphases on Spirit baptism, divine healing, charismatic worship and eschatological expectations. This work investigates its eschatological systems in terms of its unrealised expectation of the second coming of Christ, and suggestions are presented for the movement to keep its eschatology at the heart of its impetus. This is accomplished through a hermeneutical awareness of the distinctiveness of Pentecostalism as a restorationist movement. Written for pastors, church leaders and believers, this book discusses the literalistic way of reading the Bible in most of the classical Pentecostal components of African Pentecostalism, supporting their premillennialist and even dispensational eschatological views. It suggests a new Pentecostal hermeneutics developed by scholarship in the past forty years, in line with significant elements of the way in which early Pentecostals read the Bible. This new hermeneutical awareness implies new and exciting ways of thinking about eschatology that will enrich and enlighten African Pentecostalism in its hope for the second coming of Christ." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Contents:

Early Pentecostal eschatology

Acceptance of a biblicist-fundamentalist hermeneutics and its influence on Pentecostal eschatology

A new Pentecostal hermeneutics and eschatology for a postmodern church

The influence of a new Pentecostal hermeneutics on eschatology

More questions about a postmodern Pentecostal hermeneutics

Conclusions and synthesis.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-4007-3

OCLC:

1149131073