Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1990. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-140).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill., 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-95).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill., 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-95).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill., 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-95).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-05Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:39:14Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ricci_m_me_arafcl.pdf: 901112 bytes, checksum: 1431ea0f2084577ad6fce6759e0d1a79 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O tema desta Dissertação é a glossolalia. O dom de línguas - como a glossolalia é conhecida entre os pentecostais - é um modo de orar em que o fiel, em êxtase, se expressa através de uma linguagem aparentemente ininteligível, acompanhada por expressões corporais que produzem sentimentos de alegria, transbordamento, choro, riso, saltos e gestos. Esse dom é de importância central na Teologia Pentecostal por ser considerado, pelos crentes, a irrefutável evidência do batismo no Espírito Santo. Trata-se de um dom institucional e ritualístico, que se apresenta durante culto e se desenvolve na instituição - distintamente dos dons que ocorrem em processos relativamente autônomos, como é o caso das benzedeiras e curandeiros. Analiso o processo de aquisição e desenvolvimento da glossolalia dialogando com a Antropologia do Imaginário. Da compreensão de um mundo pautado por uma imponderabilidade, que motiva os fiéis pentecostais à uma busca de sentido para suas vidas em diversas agências religiosas, no modelo biomédico, entre outros, até as relações que o fiel desenvolve com um cosmo intencional, lugar mítico no qual o crente concebe a si mesmo como um eleito, alguém que se diferencia dos demais por possuir um dom e uma missão específica no mundo. Como parte da categoria dos eleitos, eles integram o mundo dos iniciados. / The theme of this Dissertation is the glossolalia. The gift of tongues - how the glossolalia is know among the pentecostals - is a kind of pray that the belivers, in ecstasy, express themselves by means of an aparent unintelligible language, followed by body expressions of the sentiments of happiness, overflow, weeping, laughing, jumps and gesticulation. This gift is very important in the Pentecostal Theology because it is considerated, by the believers, the irrefutable evidence of the Holy Spirit baptism. It s a ritualistic and institucional gift, that occurs durind the cult and develop itself in the institucion - it s a distinctive form of gifts that occurs in relatives self-suficients process, like the faith-realers and the witch-doctors. I analyse the process of aquisicion and development of glossolalia dialoging with the Anthropology of Imaginary. That extend itself in a comprehension of an imponderable world, this world motivates a search for purpose in the diverses religious agencies, in the biomedic model, and others until the relations that the belivers develop with an intencional cosmos, mythic place on which the beliver conceives himself as a chosen one, somebody who is diferent from the others for having a gift and a specific mission in the world, and as part of the category of the chosen ones, he integrates the initiated s world.

The Pentecostal Missionary Union (PMU) commenced in 1909 as a non-sectarian Pentecostal faith mission with many similarities to the China Inland Mission (CIM), influenced by the links of its President, Cecil Polhill, as one of the illustrious Cambridge Seven missionaries. In 1924 it amalgamated into the newly formed British Assemblies of God (AOG), with a full merger in 1925. This thesis reconstructs the historical narrative of the PMU examining its theology and praxis. This thesis is not a descriptive biographical narrative of the PMU’s leaders and missionaries but a historiography exploring the PMU’s development in its original context based on information provided by primary sources. Other than one 1995 Masters dissertation, no research has been conducted specifically on the PMU. This research seeks to recover the lost voice of early British non-sectarian Pentecostal missiology marginalized by Protestant mission historiography and overlooked by Pentecostal historiographers focused on American or later periods of Pentecostalism. Pentecostal historiographies have interpreted the twentieth century global revival movement largely through the ‘latter rain’ motif as an eschatologically providential event, discontinuous with previous ecclesiastical history. Pentecostal mission historiography is still developmental, especially in the employment of an historical roots methodology as opposed to traditional providential approaches. This thesis argues that early British Pentecostalism, before the Great War, originated as a non-sectarian mission movement strongly linked to antecedent faith mission roots, demonstrating the necessity for Pentecostals to engage with broader research methodologies that challenge traditional perceptions of the emergence and development of Pentecostalism. The Great War was interpreted with an apocalyptic lens that increasingly shifted Pentecostal eschatological emphasis away from missional urgency towards speculative application of Biblical prophecy with early twentieth century events. The severing of the PMU from its faith mission roots during the Great War, through CIM policy averse to Pentecostalism, reinforced Pentecostal perceptions of eschatological discontinuity and the need of a distinctive denominational identity in the uncertainty of the inter-war period. The lifespan of the world’s first modern Pentecostal missionary organisation was relatively short but it encompassed three specific periods of British history: prior to the Great War, the Great War years and the inter-War years This thesis utilises these three distinct periods to provide a progressive narrative highlighting the challenges within the PMU’s developmental history from non-sectarian faith mission to denominational mission department. The missiological emphasis of early Pentecostalism, as exemplified by the PMU, provides an understanding of the Pentecostal global phenomena a century later. Early 20th century Pentecostal revivals occurring in various places could have resulted in Pentecostalism remaining a localised sect but its significance grew through its emphasis on missiological urgency with pneumatological empowerment. Contemporary British and global Pentecostalism cannot be explained without historiographical reference to its earliest missiological roots including the PMU.

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Thesis (Ph.D.(Church History and Church Polity))--University of Pretoria, 1999. / Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 416-432).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 416-432).