Azusa Street And The Lost Doctrine Of Humility,
2022
Nations University
Azusa Street And The Lost Doctrine Of Humility, Michael Blythe
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
This article delves into original source material from the Azusa Street Revival to rekindle an awareness of the heavy emphasis that participants placed on humility as a deep and vibrant experience, both as a precondition for receiving the fullness of the Spirit and as an ongoing Pentecostal encounter. Re-lighting the Pentecostal fire is necessary to respond to the struggles of the movement in North America where disillusionment with “triumphalism” has created an uncertain future. Voices from the past and present echo the imperative that the Holy Spirit experience should be balanced by personal sacrifice. A revival of deep self surrender …
An Examination Of New Apostolic Movement Terminology: Correlating The Five-Fold Ministry And The Bureaucratic Management Model,
2022
Oral Roberts University
An Examination Of New Apostolic Movement Terminology: Correlating The Five-Fold Ministry And The Bureaucratic Management Model, Volker Krüger
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
There is a new understanding within the Pentecostal- Charismatic tradition of the five-fold ministry role as a concept for deploying effective leadership. The so-called New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement establishes an alternative approach within today’s Christianity, one that is noticeably different from the traditional leadership models in Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and the evangelical traditions. The model argues that churches and Christian ministries need effective leadership models that are theologically grounded in the doctrine of the offices of apostle and the five-fold ministry as described in the New Testament. The NAR model is a church governance concept that claims to be …
Spirit-Empowered Liturgy: The Role Of The Holy Spirit In Traditional Christian Worship,
2022
Oral Roberts University
Spirit-Empowered Liturgy: The Role Of The Holy Spirit In Traditional Christian Worship, Seth Whitaker
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
Sometimes perceived as dead ritual in contemporary Christian churches, liturgy provides a time-tested means of experiencing the empowerment of the Holy Spirit in corporate worship. When understood within its own historical use, liturgy, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, enables a community of faith to consistently remember and participate in God’s saving acts in history, culminating in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and actively look forward to the eschatological hope of Jesus’ return. Like the banks of a river, liturgy plays an important role to effectively facilitate the consistent and reliable movement of the Holy Spirit in …
Is Wisdom Silent?: Apophatic Glossolalia,
2022
Life Pacific University
Is Wisdom Silent?: Apophatic Glossolalia, Ryan Lytton
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
Drawing on both similarities and disagreements between the apophatic theology of Dionysius and Gregory of Nazianzus, I will demonstrate how glossolalia can be better understood through the lens of apophatic theology. Gregory and Dionysius both recognize the failure of human language, but each follows that concept to a different conclusion. Dionysius switches from categories of knowledge to categories of experience and focuses the mystical life on ascetic practices in the hopes that they promote an experience of God’s presence. Pentecostals, with our emphasis on experience, often find a kinship with thinkers like Dionysius. In contrast, Gregory of Nazianzus switches from …
“Even The Dark Is Light To You”: Reconsidering The Doctrine Of Sin And The Problem Of Evil,
2022
Southeastern University
“Even The Dark Is Light To You”: Reconsidering The Doctrine Of Sin And The Problem Of Evil, Chris E. W. Green
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
How did evil come to be? Who is to blame for it? Why did God allow it to happen? Familiar answers, and the traditional doctrines that they represent, can and often have been understood—and perhaps more often misunderstood—to bad, even disastrous effects. So, after a brief sketch of the traditional Augustinian doctrine of evil as received through John Wesley’s teaching, which in one form or another shaped the deep structures of American Pentecostal theology and spirituality, I propose an alternative, one that holds that evil is truly nonsensical and so inexplicable; that no one is to blame for its advent, …
Editorial: 5 Year Assessment,
2022
Oral Roberts University
Editorial: 5 Year Assessment, Jeffrey S. Lamp
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
With the publication of last fall’s issue of Spiritus, we drew to a close the fifth year of publication since we rebooted the journal in 2017. The Editor, Dr. Jeff Lamp assess the progress and impact of the journal.
Front Matter: Spiritus 7.1 (Spring 2022),
2022
Oral Roberts University
Front Matter: Spiritus 7.1 (Spring 2022), Jeffrey S. Lamp
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
Table of Contents and front matter.
Full Issue: Spiritus 7.1 (Spring 2022),
2022
Oral Roberts University
Full Issue: Spiritus 7.1 (Spring 2022), Jeffrey S. Lamp
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
The full issue of the Spring 2022 issue of Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
Hearing Faith: Music As Theology In The Spanish Empire,
2022
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Hearing Faith: Music As Theology In The Spanish Empire, Carolina Sacristán Ramírez
Yale Journal of Music & Religion
A book review is presented for Andrew Cashner, Hearing Faith: Music as Theology in the Spanish Empire. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 194. (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
Sermon And Song: A Musically Integrative Homiletic,
2022
Lancaster Theological Seminary
Sermon And Song: A Musically Integrative Homiletic, Catherine E. Williams
Yale Journal of Music & Religion
For centuries the interdisciplinary dyad of sermon and song has been in the toolkit of effective preachers. Yet scholarship on conjoined preaching and singing has been relatively sparse, despite the abundance of strong biblical, historical, and cultural warrants for its effectiveness as a means of proclamation. Seminary students have been known to graduate without ever seeing the synergistic combination of sermon and song in a preaching syllabus. With the help of musical analogue Theme and Variations, this essay illustrates a variety of ways this preaching method works for musical and “non-musical” users alike. It highlights the spiritual and cultural value …
Liturgy And Musical Inculturation In A Post-Apartheid South African Catholicism,
2022
University of Colorado Boulder
Liturgy And Musical Inculturation In A Post-Apartheid South African Catholicism, Austin Chinagorom Okigbo
Yale Journal of Music & Religion
There is a developing trend within mainstream South African Churches to incorporate styles of traditional African music and cultural elements in liturgical functions. This is happening in places where such ideas were hitherto unwelcome because mission churches witnessed the denigration of indigenous African cultures by Europeans during the eras of both colonialism and apartheid. Inculturation Theology underscores the current drive for liturgical transformation. It comprises a part of Black Theology in South Africa, which developed as an intellectual framework for liberation during the time of the anti-apartheid struggles. Using the ethnographic study of the cultural mass at Emmanuel Cathedral in …
Ash Wednesday - 22 February 2023,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
Sixth Sunday Of Easter - 22 May 2022,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
Sixth Sunday Of Easter - 22 May 2022, Joe Tedesco
Pastoral Liturgy
No abstract provided.
Keeping Vigil: Liturgical Praxis And Healing Ritual,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
Keeping Vigil: Liturgical Praxis And Healing Ritual, Samantha Wegner
Pastoral Liturgy
No abstract provided.
Easter Vigil - 16 April 2022,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
Musicians' Appendix,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
That All May Be One,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
At Worship With Thomas Merton,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
3rd Sunday Of Lent - 20 March 2022,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
3rd Sunday Of Lent - 20 March 2022, Gerard Moore
Pastoral Liturgy
No abstract provided.
4th Sunday Of Lent - 27 March 2022,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
4th Sunday Of Lent - 27 March 2022, Gerard Moore
Pastoral Liturgy
No abstract provided.
