Pneuma Review Fall 2008
The Fall 2008 (Volume 11, Number 4) issue of The Pneuma Review.
Archive for December, 2008
December 31, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
A Social Anthropologist’s Analysis of Contemporary Healing, Part 1
How do doctors respond to claims of healing? Are there any lasting social effects when people experience divine healing? What kinds of healings are associated with contemporary Christian healing ministries, conferences for training Christians in praying for healing, and such ministry in many evangelical churches? How do medical doctors perceive the healings? How […]
December 26, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
Ministry in India: 2008 Report
India is a complex and diverse nation. People are trapped in tradition, superstition, and religions that do not promise any hope of eternal life. Hindus believe in re-incarnation: that one is re-born several times. While westerners go in search of truth through meditation, and follow Hindu spiritual leaders, their teachings have not helped the average […]
December 23, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
Fall 2008: Suggested Reading
Suggestions and Comments from Readers Reader T.S. writes: I thought this critique of postmodern thinking on today’s college campuses was insightful: “The postmodern idolatry is that all spiritual ways of life lead to the same place. Any local truth is a valid truth. In the postmodern mind, they’re all paths to being […]
December 20, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
Transforming: The Church as Agent of Change in the Story of Zacchaeus
The power of personal faith in Christ changing people and society around them. A study in Luke 19:1-10 by James D. Hernando. The story of Zacchaeus is one of the most intriguing in Luke’s gospel—a literary masterpiece filled with vivid imagery, drama, and biting irony. It is the story of the conversion […]
December 15, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
Pentecostals Needed: New NCC Director Partners with Pentecostals
Explanatory Note: Dr. Antonios Kireopoulos, a Greek Orthodox theologian, formerly Associate General Secretary for International Affairs and Peace at the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, was recently (January 1, 2008) appointed Senior Program Director for Faith & Order and Interfaith Relations at the NCC. The following is an exclusive […]
December 10, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, revised and expanded edition (New York: Oxford, 2007), 316 pages, ISBN 9780195183078. Philip Jenkins’ award winning study of developments in Christianity outside of the Western hemisphere should be riveting reading for anyone interested in the future of Christianity and of Christian ministry. It particularly informs […]
December 5, 2008 | 3 comments | View Post
Followers
Fans
