Proclaiming Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit (eBook)

Opportunities and Challenges

Wonsuk Ma, Emmanuel Anim, Rebekah Bled (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
494 Seiten
ORU Press (Verlag)
978-1-950971-05-3 (ISBN)

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How may the church claim that Christ is the only Savior in a world in which toleranceand relativism are prized and societies are increasingly religiously plural? How doesthe Spirit empower believers and communities in their daily life and work as they faceformidable cultural and ideological challenges?Such questions these essays answer. Half originated at "e;Proclaiming Christ in the Faceof Challenges,"e; the 2018 Scholars' Consultation of Empowered21, a global network ofSpirit-empowered churches and communities. This Consultation's location in Johannesburgaccounts for eight essays' focusing on distinctively African concerns; another four centeron Asia and the Global South and three on Europe. Others address Western concerns ofmodernism, postmodernism, secularism, and pluralism, while several probe biblical andhistorical-theological foundations of Christian faith and its Spirit-empowered proclamation.Readers will benefit from exploring the universality of the Christian gospel from its fi rstproclamation and its proven adaptability to the cultural pluralism that is today's globalreality, a flexibility that is faithful to God's revelation and effective in imparting divine lifewhere proclaimed and believed.

Inhalt

Foreword

Preface

Part I. Establishing the Foundation

Introduction

Wonsuk Ma and Emmanuel Anim

1. The Name of Jesus in Luke-Acts with Special

Reference to the Gentile Mission

James B. Shelton

2. Only Jesus Is Savior and Lord? How the New

Testament Responds to Religious and Political

Pluralism

Mark E. Roberts

3. A New Antinomianism: Universal Salvation and

All-Inclusive Grace in Contemporary

Charismatic Teaching

Michael McClymond

4. Pentecostalism, Primal Spirituality, and

Secularism

Allan H. Anderson

5. "And These Signs Shall Follow. . .": Authenticity

and Authentication of the Gospel in the Early

Church

Clayton Coombs

6. The New Pluralism: The Place of the Christian

Church in the 21st Century

Samuel Thorpe and J. Elias Stone

Part II. Proclaiming the Uniqueness of Christ

in the World

7. The Uniqueness of Jesus in African Culture: An

African Pentecostal Perspective

Emmanuel Anim

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8. "God Has Made Him Both Lord and

Messiah. . .": An African Perspective on

Christology and the Pentecost Day Message

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

9. Power Encounter in the Proclamation of God's

Word

Opoku Onyinah

10. Towards a Contextual and Effective Engagement

of the African Spirit World

Christian Tsekpoe

11. "No Other Name": Presenting Jesus Christ in

Multi-Cultural and Religious Environments

Sylvia Owusu-Ansah and Philip Adjei-Acquah

12. The Spirit-Empowered Church: God's Answer to

a Postmodern World: A Sermon

Sakkie Olivier

13. Integrating Christianity in the Traditional

Religious Milieu: The South African Experience

Dela Quampah

14. Redundancy in the African Cosmos: Witnessing

Jesus Christ as the Only Savior through the

Power of the Holy Spirit

Lord Elorm-Donkor

15. Witnessing to Jesus Christ as the Only Savior

through the Power of the Holy Spirit: An Asian

Experience

Julie C. Ma

16. Christian Marginality and the Holy Spirit: A

Pakistan Encounter

Zia Paul and Rebecca Paul

17. The Challenge of a "Displacing" Secularism: A

Tactical Response by Hindu and Christian

Traditions in India

Brainerd Prince and Jeffrey R. Thomas

18. Fresh Fire, Fresh Wind: Stories of Young African

Pentecostals Engaging Secularism in Europe

Harvey Kwiyani

19. Witnessing to Christ in Eastern Europe: An

Assessment of Context

Marcel V. Măcelaru

20. Refugee Ministry in the Contrasting Settings of

Greece and Germany

John Thompson

21. Witnessing to Christ Among Urban Youths: A

Bogota Experience

Richard Harding and Manuela Castellanos

22. Postmodernism, Pluralism, and Pneumiotics:

Three Major Influences on the Spirit-Empowered

Church

Michael Rakes

The Gift of Christ's Uniqueness: Postscript

Rebekah Bled

Contributors

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Name and Subject Index

Scripture Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: E21 Scholars' Consultation
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Schlagworte: ancestral worship • Antinomianism • authority • Buddhism • charismatic • Christianity and other religions • Church • Church Growth • Cross of Christ • Discipleship • displacing secularism • Doctrine • Evangelism • Gentiles • Gospel • Grace • hermeneutics • Holy Spirit • interreligious • Interreligious dialogue • irenaeus • Jesus Christ • Law of God • ministry • pentecostal • Pentecostalism • Persecution • pluralism • pneumatological • pnuemiotics • Postmodernism • postmodern world • Prophetism • Religion • Religious pluralism • Salvation • Secularization • Shamanism • signs • sociological pluralism • Sociology • SPIRIT • Spirit-empowered • Theology • Tradition • Universalism • Witchcraft • Worldview
• ISBN-10: 1-950971-05-8 / 1950971058
• ISBN-13: 978-1-950971-05-3 / 9781950971053