Pentecostal Pacifism: The Origin, Development, and Rejection of Pacific Belief among the Pentecostals

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Wipf and Stock Publishers, Nov 1, 2009 - Religion - 200 pages
At a time when the Evangelical wing of the church is beginning to show some signs of soul searching over the issues of war and peace, the Pentecostals would do well to study their own heritage.

Whether they accept or reject their earlier world view, they need to interpret the motivation for their original beliefs and those which they now hold.

As people of the word of God, have Pentecostals altered their pacifistic views as a result of new biblical insights or cultural accommodation?

-- From the Introduction
 

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CHAPTER VI
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CONCLUSION g
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Jay Beaman was raised in the Assemblies of God in Southern Oregon, graduated from Northwest College in Kirkland, Washington, and North American Baptist Seminary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology at Iowa State University. He has taught sociology at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas and George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. He is Director of Institutional Research at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he resides with his wife, Rockie. He is an ordained American Baptist and member of Rivergate Community Church.

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