Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Religion
Jimmy Swaggart: The Conflict Between Spirit-Empowerment And Human Weakness, Robert D. Mcbain
Jimmy Swaggart: The Conflict Between Spirit-Empowerment And Human Weakness, Robert D. Mcbain
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
This article explores how Jimmy Swaggart fits the profile of a Spirit-empowered leader. It summarizes Swaggart’s life and ministry, focusing on his calling, role as a defender of the faith, moral failure, and demise. The article then reflects on Swaggart’s story within the context of Spirit-empowered leadership, exploring how Swaggart fits Lee Roy Martin’s paradigm of a prophetic preacher while demonstrating various negative leadership traits. Stuck between the convictions of his calling and his weaknesses, Swaggart appears as a conflicted individual not immune from making serious errors. The article discusses this aspect of Swaggart’s life to consider how his story …
Against These Things There Is No Law: Spirit-Empowered Witness In Secular Uruguay, Rebekah Bled
Against These Things There Is No Law: Spirit-Empowered Witness In Secular Uruguay, Rebekah Bled
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
Uruguay is a country unique in Latin America for its secularism. It secularized early, thoroughly, and publicly, under the leadership of President José Batlle y Ordoñez, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. A century later, Uruguay still boasts the highest percentage of atheists, agnostics, and nones in the continent. This is a country that seems to defy the sometimes triumphalist narratives of the pentecostalization of the global South. Yet, even amidst this backdrop, there are bright spots of Spirit-empowered witness. This article seeks to examine two of these bright spots of Spirit-empowered hope during …
"Faith Apostles Busy" N.D., Charles F. Parham
"Faith Apostles Busy" N.D., Charles F. Parham
Parham News Paper Clippings
Article from unknown source and unknown date about Parham preaching in "red light district" of Houston.
From the Pauline Parham Archive at the Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University.
"Don't Yell Is What Parham Says," N.D., Charles F. Parham
"Don't Yell Is What Parham Says," N.D., Charles F. Parham
Parham News Paper Clippings
A transcript of a news article, likely from Wakegan, Illinois, concerning Zion City.
From the Pauline Parham Archive at the Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University.
"Demand Prsioners Be Given Liberty," N.D., Charles F. Parham
"Demand Prsioners Be Given Liberty," N.D., Charles F. Parham
Parham News Paper Clippings
A news paper article by Charles Parham criticizing the arbitrary incarceration of people on vagrancy charges. Parham offers to support unemployed people as a Christian duty.