Fire From Heaven: The Rise Of Pentecostal Spirituality And The Reshaping Of Religion In The 21st CenturyHachette Books, 2009 M03 25 - 372 pages It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible?and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality?a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people. |
Contents
| 3 | |
The Fire Falls in Los Angeles | 45 |
The Fire Spreads | 67 |
The Recovery of Primal Speech | 81 |
The Recovery | 111 |
SEVEN | 123 |
EIGHT | 139 |
NINE | 161 |
ΤΕΝ | 185 |
on the Asian | 213 |
TWELVE | 233 |
Primal Spirituality | 243 |
THIRTEEN | 261 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES | 323 |
INDEX | 333 |
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