The missionary self-perception of Pentecostal/Charismatic church leaders from the global South in Europe : bringing back the Gospel /
Based on interviews conducted during a research encompassing more than 100 churches, this comprehensive portrait of an immigrant group describes how pentecostal/charismatic migrant pastors live out their pastoral role, how they construct their missionary biographies, and how they conceptualize and p...
| Основен автор: | Wahrisch-Oblau, Claudia. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Серия: |
Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ;
v. 2. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=312665 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Missionary self-perception of Pentecostal/Charismatic church leaders from the global South in Europe. |
Съдържание:
- Methodological reflections
- Introduction
- The UEM program for cooperation between German and foreign language churches, 1998-2008
- Other European Protestant church responses to migrant churches : a short overview
- Description of my research
- Reflecting my own role as agent and researcher
- Interpretative paradigms
- The field of study
- Terminology : "migrant churches"
- Delimiting "pentecostal/charismatic"
- Constructing a pentecostal/charismatic discourse field
- Migrant churches : categorizations
- Historical dynamics : foundation and development of migrant churches
- Migrant churches as part of a globalized discourse network
- The role of the pastor : the relationship to one's own congregation
- The pastor as father and shepherd
- The Shepherd : mediator between God and the congregation
- The authority of the shepherd
- "To stay with God always" : the spiritual life of a shepherd
- Sacrificing oneself for the congregation and living as a role model
- Becoming a shepherd : call, training, ordination, and gifts of the spirit
- Defending one's call : biographical stories as legitimation narratives
- Call narratives in a pentecostal/charismatic context
- No legitimation narrative : observations and possible reasons
- Legitimation narratives I : called by a prophetic word
- Legitimation narratives II : deciding for the ministry after a miracle experience
- Legitimation narratives III : called by visions and dreams
- Legitimation narratives IV : woman pastors
- Mediators of divine power in a market situation : observations and analysis of the pastoral role
- The market situation : undermining pastoral authority
- Asserting pastoral authority
- Growing into authority : calling and ordination
- Mediators of divine power in a market situation
- Following the call : expatriation narratives
- Theoretical framework : some considerations
- Intertwined call and expatriation narratives
- 'Circular stories' : how the call was realized after all
- 'Oscillating' narratives : how the call became clear over time
- Called after expatriation
- Struggling to understand call and expatriation
- Concluding remarks : intertwined call and expatriation narratives
- Expatriation as consequence of the call
- Independent charismatic missionaries : success stories
- Missionaries sent by Pentecostal churches
- Expatriation as consequence of the call
- Pastoral call and expatriation not connected
- V.K. : for me it was so wonderful to go to Germany
- A.M., P.S., I.A. : asylum in Germany
- Spiritual interpretation instead of expatriation narrative
- Expatriation narratives : some final observations
- Being on a mission : the relationship to the outside world
- "What is your mission?" : observations from the short interviews
- Missionary practice : evangelizing Germans
- Street evangelism
- Tracts
- Gospel music
- Other means
- Conceptualizing evangelism in interdenominational dialogue : the long interviews
- Locating oneself globally sent to the world
- Describing one's message
- Reflections on contextualization
- Imagining Germany and Europe
- Restoring a ruined church
- "Bringing back" the Gospel
- The German nation in the economy of salvation
- Territorial spirits
- Imagining Germany and Europe
- Conceptualizing evangelism in the global pentecostal/charismatic network : the 'spiritual warfare' paradigm
- Evangelism in the framework of spiritual warfare : the anglophone West African example
- Evangelism in the framework of 'spiritual warfare' : concretizations
- Evangelism, inculturation and clashing paradigms
- Consequences
- The current situation
- Dialogue fields : a description
- Ministerial authority
- Immigration
- Mission and evangelism
- Ecclesiology and the politics of difference : who defines Christianity in Europe?
- The functional question does a missionary self-image further or hinder integration?
- The theological question : are European churches ready to be evangelized?