Pentecostals And Nonviolence [Hardcover]

Description: Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century. To do so, the book examines the nature of the early Pentecostal commitment to nonviolence, and investigates the possibilities that might emerge from Pentecostals and Anabaptists entering into conversation and worship with each other. Contributors engage the arguments surrounding the heritage of Pentecostal pacifism in the United States and then move toward exploring nonviolence and peacemaking as crucial for contemporary Christianity as a whole. Ranging from theology, testimony, and pastoral ministry to interchurch relations, activism, and protest, this diverse collection of essays challenge and invite the whole church to the task of peacemaking while exploring the distinctive, and often neglected, contributions from the Pentecostal-charismatic tradition. Endorsements: This book reflects and reveals the emergence of an already powerful and potentially monumental development in global Pentecostalism. A growing number of Pentecostals are rediscovering their own early tradition of nonviolent peacemaking grounded in their passionate desire to follow Jesus without compromise. If even a quarter of today's six hundred million Pentecostals would combine Jesus' call to nonviolent peacemaking with the explosive power of Pentecost, the demons would tremble, the Church would flourish, and the world would rejoice. This important book offers exciting clues about how that might happen. --Ron Sider, Founder of Evangelicals for Social Action It's coming! Pentecostals and Nonviolence retrieves and describes a neglected history of pentecostal peacemaking; and as such, it serves as an important preliminary step to prescribing biblical peacemaking. It's coming! The seeds of such a normative pentecostal vision of peacemaking are being nurtured in this book. It's coming! A prophetic pentecostal theology of peacl“w