The Assemblies

The Assemblies
Author: al-Qāsim Ibn-ʿAlī ¬al- Ḥarīrī
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1867
Genre:
ISBN:

Restoring the Faith

Restoring the Faith
Author: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1993
Genre: Pentecostalism
ISBN: 9780252062810

American Pentecostalism began as a culturally isolated sect intent upon announcing the imminence of the world's end. The sect's early millenarian fervor gradually became muted in favor of flag-waving patriotism. At the end of the twentieth century it has become an affluent, worldwide movement thoroughly entrenched in popular culture. Edith Blumhofer uses the Assemblies of God, the largest classical Pentecostal denomination in the world, as a lens through which to view the changing nature of Anglo Pentecostalism in the United States. She illustrates how the original mission to proclaim the end resulted in the development of Bible schools, the rise of the charismatic movement, and the popularity of such figures as Aimee Semple McPherson, Charles Fox Parham, and David Du Plessis. Blumhofer also examines the sect's use of radio and television and the creation of a parallel Christian culture

The Assemblies of Al Harîri

The Assemblies of Al Harîri
Author: Thomas Chenery
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2022-02-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752569271

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Peace to War

Peace to War
Author: Paul Alexander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Peace
ISBN: 9781931038584

Once the Pentecostal peace witness extended throughout the movement and around the world-but was eventually muted and almost completely lost in the American Assemblies of God. This book, which is "gripping, powerful, and prophetic," says Amos Yong, tells the story of that shift. "The antiwar, Christian, pacifist sentiments of the Assemblies of God that Alexander describes . . . juxtaposed in close proximity to their pro-war and anti-pacifist passion and identification with America . . . is simply striking," comments J. Denny Weaver, in the C. Henry Smith Series Editor's Foreword. The implications, observes Cheryl Bridges Johns, Professor of Christian Formation and Discipleship, Church of God, "are worth examining by all traditions asking, 'Will our children have faith?' At the same time, mentions Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Religion, Harvard Divinity School, Alexander's narrative "suggests that Pentecostals may yet reclaim this invaluable element of their heritage."

Presidents and Assemblies

Presidents and Assemblies
Author: Matthew Soberg Shugart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1992-08-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521429900

In recent years renewed attention has been directed to the importance of the role of institutional design in democratic politics. Particular interest has concerned constitutional design and the relative merits of parliamentary versus presidential systems. In this book, the authors systematically assess the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of presidential systems, drawing on recent developments in the theoretical literature about institutional design and electoral rules. They develop a typology of democratic regimes structured around the separation of powers principle, including two hybrid forms, the premier-presidential and president-parliamentary systems, and they evaluate a number of alternative ways of balancing powers between the branches within these basic frameworks. They also demonstrate that electoral rules are critically important in determining how political authority is exercised.