| Description |
1 online resource (194 pages) |
| Series |
Pentecostals, Peacemaking, and Social Justice ; v. 10 |
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Pentecostals, Peacemaking, and Social Justice
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| Contents |
The gold, white and blue -- Imminent events in the United States -- Should a Christian fight? -- Victory -- War! War! War! -- Blood against blood -- The character of the church -- Should Christians go to war? -- The present situation -- The European war -- Present day conditions -- Christian preparedness -- Is Christian civilization breaking down? -- Pentecostal saints opposed to war -- What will the harvest be? -- Our heavenly citizenship -- In the Last Days -- The world war -- Loyalty and perseverance -- The Christian and war: is it too late?: part 1 -- The Christian and war: Christ cleansing the Temple: Part 2 -- The spirit of the age -- The awful world war -- The awful war seems near -- War notice -- The Pentecostal movement and the conscription law -- [Members seeking conscientious objection] -- Days of perplexity -- The patriotic harlot -- Christian citizenship -- War and the Christian -- From the Pentecostal viewpoint -- War, the Bible, and the Christian: Part 1 -- War, the Bible, and the Christian: part 1 -- War, the Bible, and the Christian: part 2 -- War behind the smoke screen -- The way to disarm is to disarm -- The pulse of a dying world -- Is war Christian? -- Conscientious objection |
| Summary |
This book documents some of the pacifist and social justice convictions of early Pentecostals, many of whom were called traitors, slackers, cranks, and weak-minded people for extending Jesus' love beyond racial, ethnic, and national boundaries. They wrestled with citizenship and Jesus' prohibitions on killing. They rejected nation-worship, war profiteering, wage slavery, patriotic indoctrination, militarism, and Wall Street politics--and many suffered for it. They criticized governments and churches that, in wartime, endorsed the very thing forbidden in their sacred book and civil laws. They r |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches.
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Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches.
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Pentecostal churches -- Doctrines
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Pentecostalism -- History
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Peace -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches.
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Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches.
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Peace -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches.
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Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Pentecostal churches.
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Pentecostal churches -- Doctrines.
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Pentecostalism.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pipkin, Brian K., editor.
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Beaman, Jay, 1953- editor.
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Sider, Ronald J., writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9781498278911 |
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1498278914 |
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9781498278928 |
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1498278922 |
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