The Missionary Spirit: Evangelism and Social Action in Pentecostal Missiology - Paperback

by Jerry M. Ireland (Author)

In The Missionary Spirit Jerry Ireland explores the history of mission activity in Pentecostalism, and argues for a return to its early emphasis on the need to engage in cross-cultural evangelism, as opposed to a broader, more amorphous understanding of Pentecostal missiology as "everything that God is doing in the world." Instead of separating "mission from missions, or the broad sense of mission from the narrow sense," Ireland says that both senses of mission "should be held together in tension and in fact were in early Pentecostalism."

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RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism RELIGION / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT Evangelism and Social Action in Pentecostal Missiology American Society of Missiology Series #61 Cover design: Michael Calvente US$39.00 ISBN 978-1-62698-429-5

Author Biography

Jerry M. Ireland is associate professor of theology and missions at the University of Valley Forge in Phoenixville, PA. He is author of Evangelism and Social Concern in the Theology of Carl F. H. Henry (Pickwick, 2015) and co-editor of Dictionary of Pentecostal Missions (T&T Clark, forthcoming).