Pentecostalism and Ecumenism: Past, Present, and Future (Part 5 of 5) by Amos Yong
Kinnamon, Michael. Truth and Community: Diversity and Its Limits in the Ecumenical Movement. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1988.
Kinnamon, Michael, ed. Signs of the Spirit: Official Report of the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Canberra, Australia, 7-20 February 1991. Geneva: WCC Publications, and Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.
Michael Kinnamon is the Allen and Dottie Miller Professor of Mission and Peace at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also extensively involved with the WCC.
Macchia, Frank. “From Azusa to Memphis: Evaluating the Racial Reconciliation Dialogue among Pentecostals.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 10 (1995): 3-28.
Macchia is an Assemblies of God theologian who teaches at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA.
Moltmann, Jürgen, and Karl-Josef Kuschel, eds. Pentecostal Movements as an Ecumenical Challenge. Concilium 1996/3. London: SCM Press and Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1996.
Includes discussions by non-Pentecostal Protestants and Pentecostals on the nature of the Church, healing, deliverance, tongues, prophecy, praying in the Spirit, new birth, and baptism in the Spirit; depicts the importance of Pentecostal participation with other Protestants for theological understanding.
Robeck, Cecil M., Jr. “The Assemblies of God and Ecumenical Cooperation: 1920-1965.” In Wonsuk Ma and Robert P. Menzies, eds. Pentecostalism in Context: Essays in Honor of William W. Menzies. Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 11. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997, 107-50.
_____. “Growing Up Pentecostal.” Theology News and Notes 35:1 (1988): 4-7, 26.
_____. “A Pentecostal Looks at the World Council of Churches.” The Ecumenical Review 47 (1995): 60-69.
_____. “Pentecostals and Visible Church Unity.” One World 192 (January-February 1984): 11-14.
Robeck is an ordained Assemblies of God minister and Professor of History and Ecumenics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.
Quebedeaux, Richard. The New Charismatic II. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983.
A fair historical and sociological study of the charismatic renewal movement in the mainline churches.
Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee, and Patrick Alexander, eds. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Grand Rapids: Academic Reference Library, 1988): articles on
– Charismatic Movement
– Dialogue, Roman Catholic and Classical Pentecostal
– International Communion of Charismatic Churches
– National Association of Evangelicals
– North American Congresses on the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization
– Pentecostal Fellowship of North America
– Pentecostal World Conference
– World Council of Churches
Van Elderen, Marlin. Introducing the World Council of Churches, rev. ed. Geneva: Risk Book Series/WCC Publications, 1992.
A concise and readable overview of the WCC
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