The Use and Abuse of the Spirit in Pentecostalism: A South African Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367651060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 218 str.

Mookgo S. Kgatle; Allan H. Anderson

Opis

This book is a pneumatological reflection on the use and abuse of Spirit in light of the abuse of religion within South African Pentecostalism.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: The Abuse of the Spirit in Some New Prophetic Churches in South African Pentecostalism 2 "The Weird You Shall Always Have": A Historical Look into the Causative Factors behind Neo-Prophetic Scandals in South Africa 3 The Abuse of the Spirit: An Immigration-Imported New Wave or a Development of Pre-Existing Local Beliefs? 4 Whence Have All the Prophets Come?: A Reflection on Neoprophets and their Oracular Forms 5 "Simon the Sorcerer Offered Them Money" (Acts 8:19): Some Pentecostals have gone Commercial instead of Evangelical 6 Mission as Discernment of Spirits in the Advent of the Abuse of Prophecy within Newer Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity in South Africa 7 Rethinking the Seven Angels Ministry’s Praxis of Pneumatology as Seen through the Lens of Decoloniality 8 Pneumatology and Prophetic Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity during COVID-19 in South Africa 9 The Poor’s Weapon Against inequality?: A Critique of the Public Role of Neo-Pentecostalism in Unequal South Africa