Lam, Chi Ho Ansel. / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-59). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract in English --- p.i / Abstract in Chinese --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Framework of the Thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Keyword --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Pent/Char Worship --- p.5 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- The Pentecosta-Charismatic Tradition --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1 --- A Charismatic Tradition --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2 --- Two Essential Historical Roots --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- The Black Tradition --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- The Holiness Tradition --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- The Diversity of Contemporary Pent/Char Worship --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- "Cases Studies, Basic Pattern and General Features of Contemporary Pent/Char Worship" --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- Principles on Sampling --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2 --- "Case Study 1 -Sunday Service of City Harvest Church, Singapore" --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Brief Introduction to the Church --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Settings of the Venue --- p.20 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- An Account of the Sunday Service --- p.20 / Chapter 3.3 --- "Case Study 2 ´ؤ""Friday Revival"" of Ministry on the Rock, Hong Kong" --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Brief Introduction to the Ministry --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- An Account of the Revival Meeting --- p.26 / Chapter 3.4 --- Case Study 3 -Holy Spirit Miracle Crusades of Benny Hinn Ministries --- p.29 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Brief Introduction to Benny Hinn and Benny Hinn Ministries --- p.29 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- An Account of the Holy Spirit Miracle Crusade --- p.30 / Chapter 3.5 --- Basic Pattern and General Features of Contemporary Pent/Char Worship --- p.32 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- The Rite of Worship and Praise --- p.32 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- The Rite of Pastoral Message --- p.33 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- The Rite of Altar/ Response --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Theological Implications and Presuppositions of Contemporary Pent/Char Worship --- p.36 / Chapter 4.1 --- "Worship as ""Encountering the Divine""" --- p.36 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Liveliness --- p.38 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- A Joyful Celebration --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- A Supernatural Way --- p.46 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- Spontaneity --- p.49 / Chapter 4.1.5 --- Active Participation --- p.52 / Chapter 4.1.6 --- High Commitment in Mission the World --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2 --- Conclusion --- p.56 / Bibliography --- p.58

Lung Chun Ming. / "July 2012." / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.II / INTRODUCTION --- p.6 / DEFINITION OF THE TERMS --- p.8 / Chapter 1 --- EARLY PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.9 / Chapter 1.1 --- CHARLES FOX PARHAM --- p.10 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO CHARLES FOX PARHAM --- p.11 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- PARHAM'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.12 / Chapter 1.2 --- WILLIAM J. SEYMOUR --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO WILLIAM JOSEPH SEYMOUR --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- SEYMOUR'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.17 / Chapter 1.3 --- G. S. CASHWELL --- p.19 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO GASTON BARNABAS CASHWELL --- p.20 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- CASHWELL'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.21 / Chapter 1.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.24 / Chapter 2 --- CONTEMPORARY PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTICS --- p.26 / Chapter 2.1 --- MENZIES'S VIEW POINT TO PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.28 / Chapter 2.2 --- STRONSTAD'S VIEW POINT TO PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3 --- LEWIS'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.32 / Chapter 3 --- CRITICISM OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZATION FROM A PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVE --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1 --- CRITICISMS OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZATION FROM HOWARD M. ERVIN --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO HOWARD M. ERVIN --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- FIRST CRITICISM WORLDVIEW OF MODERN MAN NO LONGER HOLDS --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- SECOND CRITICISM: DEMYTHOLOGIZATION IS ONLY A TASK OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE. DEMYTHOLOGIZATION NEGLECTS DIVINE HERMENEUTICS DURING INTERPRETATION --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2 --- ANALYSIS OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZING --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- BULTMANN'S VIEW ON DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- RICOEUR VIEW'S ON BULTMANN'S DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3 --- A CRITICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTICS AND BULTMANN'S DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- RESPONSE TO FIRST CRITICISM --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- RESPONSE TO SECOND CRITICISM --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.46 / CONCLUSION --- p.47 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.48 / BOOKS AND JOURNALS --- p.48 / ONLINE RESOURCES --- p.50

No abstract available / Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies / D.Th. (Old Testament)

No abstract available / Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies / D.Th. (Old Testament)

The Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal movements propose a subsequent to salvation Spirit baptism. This baptism is viewed as an experience in which the Spirit either confers or awakens gifts within the life of the believer. The thesis ofthis paper is that Spirit baptism occurs at conversion. Spirit filling on the other hand is one of many metaphors to describe the work of the eschatological Spirit subsequent to salvation. This distinguishing of Spirit baptism and Spirit filling is different to the Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal idea that Spirit baptism and Spirit filling are synonymous experiences that occur at some point subsequent to salvation. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / Th. M. (Systematic Theology)

The Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal movements propose a subsequent to salvation Spirit baptism. This baptism is viewed as an experience in which the Spirit either confers or awakens gifts within the life of the believer. The thesis ofthis paper is that Spirit baptism occurs at conversion. Spirit filling on the other hand is one of many metaphors to describe the work of the eschatological Spirit subsequent to salvation. This distinguishing of Spirit baptism and Spirit filling is different to the Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal idea that Spirit baptism and Spirit filling are synonymous experiences that occur at some point subsequent to salvation. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / Th. M. (Systematic Theology)

Pentecostalism, which developed its essential character during the classical period of 1901-1916, has many significant contributions to make to modern theology. Often viewed as a type of fundamentalism, it is actually a theological tradition in its own right that deserves consideration along with the other two major streams of protestantism, conservative evangelicalism and more liberal ecumenical-mainline thought. Although it emphasizes the experience of the Holy Spirit, pentecostalism is highly Christocentric as is evidenced by its foundational symbol of faith, the fourfold gospel of Jesus as savior, healer, baptizer, and coming king. This work examines how the pentecostal fourfold gospel, as a functional, from below Spirit Christology, anticipates and intersects with trends in twentieth century ecumenical theological thought. The result of the study is the articulation of a fuller, more holistic understanding of the work of Christ in salvation in the world today. / Systematic Theology & Theological Ethics / M. Th. (Systematic Theology)

Atonement theories have great implications for the soteriological paradigms associated with them, but their significance has not always been recognized in the formulation of theological systems, the lack of dogmatic definition by ecumenical council encouraging diversification and isolation from other doctrinal loci. The strongest coherence between an atonement model and soteriology can be seen in the reformed tradition, and its theory of penal substitution has become the standard accepted by many non-reformed protestant groups, including classical pentecostalism. Tensions persist in the theological system of pentecostalism because of its pairing of penal substitution with the soteriological paradigm of its foundational symbol of faith, the full gospel of Jesus as savior, sanctifier, baptizer with the Spirit, healer, and coming king. This vision of salvation is broader than that of protestant orthodoxy, which through its atonement theory deleteriously separates the death of Christ from his work in life and strictly limits the subjects and nature of salvation, specifically to addressal of elect individuals’ sins. It is proposed that this tension within the pentecostal system be relieved not through a reduction of its soteriology but a retrieval of the Christus victor model, the atonement theory of the ancient and Eastern church. As reintroduced to the Western church by G. Aulén, this model interprets the saving work of Christ along two lines: recapitulation, the summing up and saving of humanity via the incarnation, and ransom, the deliverance of humanity from the hostile powers holding it in bondage. In a contemporary, pentecostal appropriation of this model, aid is taken from K. Barth’s concept of nothingness to partially demythologize the cosmic conflict of the Bible, and pentecostalism reinvigorates the Eastern paradigm of salvation as theosis or Christification via the expectation of the replication of Christ’s ministry in the Christian. The study shows Christus victor can give a more stable base for a broader soteriology that is concerned with the holistic renewal of the human person. To demonstrate the developed model’s vigor and applicability beyond pentecostalism, the study closes by bringing it into conversation with the concerns of three contemporary theological movements. / Philosophy & Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)

Pentecostalism, which developed its essential character during the classical period of 1901-1916, has many significant contributions to make to modern theology. Often viewed as a type of fundamentalism, it is actually a theological tradition in its own right that deserves consideration along with the other two major streams of protestantism, conservative evangelicalism and more liberal ecumenical-mainline thought. Although it emphasizes the experience of the Holy Spirit, pentecostalism is highly Christocentric as is evidenced by its foundational symbol of faith, the fourfold gospel of Jesus as savior, healer, baptizer, and coming king. This work examines how the pentecostal fourfold gospel, as a functional, from below Spirit Christology, anticipates and intersects with trends in twentieth century ecumenical theological thought. The result of the study is the articulation of a fuller, more holistic understanding of the work of Christ in salvation in the world today. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Systematic Theology)

Atonement theories have great implications for the soteriological paradigms associated with them, but their significance has not always been recognized in the formulation of theological systems, the lack of dogmatic definition by ecumenical council encouraging diversification and isolation from other doctrinal loci. The strongest coherence between an atonement model and soteriology can be seen in the reformed tradition, and its theory of penal substitution has become the standard accepted by many non-reformed protestant groups, including classical pentecostalism. Tensions persist in the theological system of pentecostalism because of its pairing of penal substitution with the soteriological paradigm of its foundational symbol of faith, the full gospel of Jesus as savior, sanctifier, baptizer with the Spirit, healer, and coming king. This vision of salvation is broader than that of protestant orthodoxy, which through its atonement theory deleteriously separates the death of Christ from his work in life and strictly limits the subjects and nature of salvation, specifically to addressal of elect individuals’ sins. It is proposed that this tension within the pentecostal system be relieved not through a reduction of its soteriology but a retrieval of the Christus victor model, the atonement theory of the ancient and Eastern church. As reintroduced to the Western church by G. Aulén, this model interprets the saving work of Christ along two lines: recapitulation, the summing up and saving of humanity via the incarnation, and ransom, the deliverance of humanity from the hostile powers holding it in bondage. In a contemporary, pentecostal appropriation of this model, aid is taken from K. Barth’s concept of nothingness to partially demythologize the cosmic conflict of the Bible, and pentecostalism reinvigorates the Eastern paradigm of salvation as theosis or Christification via the expectation of the replication of Christ’s ministry in the Christian. The study shows Christus victor can give a more stable base for a broader soteriology that is concerned with the holistic renewal of the human person. To demonstrate the developed model’s vigor and applicability beyond pentecostalism, the study closes by bringing it into conversation with the concerns of three contemporary theological movements. / Philosophy and Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)