More Than Tongues Can Tell : Theological Generosity in Black Pentecostal Thought.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Eric Lewis.

Series:

Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostals, Black.

Pentecostalism.

Generosity--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Pentecostals, Black--United States.

Pentecostalism--United States.

Generosity.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Pentecostalism is often characterized as either an ecstatic movement, centrally involving speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy, or an exclusivist one, aligned with North American white evangelicalism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On the Coming of Age of Black Pentecostal Thought

1. Whose Report Shall You Believe? Black Pentecostalism as a Curious Object of Examination in American Religion

2. The Priest: Ozro Thurston Jones Jr. as the Philosophical Theologian

3. The Prelate: Ithiel Conrad Clemmons as the Historical Theologian

4. The Prophet: James Alexander Forbes Jr. as the Public Theologian

5. The Preacher: William Clair Turner Jr. as the Constructive Theologian

Conclusion: On the Theologically Generous Vision of Black Pentecostal Thought

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-271-10179-2

0-271-10180-6

9780271101804

OCLC:

1570553474