LEADER 04904nam 2201033 a 450 001 9910780606303321 005 20230721024206.0 010 $a0-8147-6848-2 010 $a0-8147-3742-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814768488 035 $a(CKB)2440000000014045 035 $a(EBL)865808 035 $a(OCoLC)779828253 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483045 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11289806 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483045 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10527029 035 $a(PQKB)10520249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865808 035 $a(OCoLC)647699966 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10505 035 $a(DE-B1597)547386 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814768488 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865808 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10289877 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000014045 100 $a20080424d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlood and fire$b[electronic resource] $eGodly love in a Pentecostal emerging church /$fMargaret M. Poloma and Ralph W. Hood, Jr 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-6748-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index. 327 $aGodly love and post-modern Christianity : an introduction -- The man, the myth, and the vision -- An emerging church family and the family business -- Charisma and spiritual transformation -- Godly love as emotional energy -- The BnF family and the homeless poor -- Ideology and tradition in conflict -- Smoke, mirrors, and holy madness -- Epilogue: A social scientific assessment of Godly love. 330 $aWhat does it mean to live out the theology presented in the Great Commandment to ?love God above all and to love your neighbor as yourself?? In Blood and Fire, Poloma and Hood explore how understandings of godly love function to empower believers. Though godly love may begin as a perceived relationship between God and a person, it is made manifest as social behavior among people.Blood and Fire offers a deep ethnographic portrait of a charismatic church and its faith-based ministry, illuminating how religiously motivated social service makes use of beliefs about the nature of God's love. It traces the triumphs and travails associated with living a set of rigorous religious ideals, providing a richly textured analysis of a faith community affiliated with the ?emerging church? movement in Pentecostalism, one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic religious movements of our day.Based on more than four years of interviews and surveys with people from all levels of the organization, from the leader to core and marginal members to the poor and addicts they are seeking to serve, Blood and Fire sheds light on the differing worldviews and religious perceptions between those who served in as well as those who were served by this ministry.Blood and Fire argues that godly love- the relationship between perceived divine love and human response- is at the heart of the vision of emerging churches, and that it is essential to understand this dynamic if one is to understand the ongoing reinvention of American Protestantism in the twenty-first century. 606 $aChristianity$y21st century 606 $aEmerging church movement 606 $aPostmodernism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aPentecostalism 606 $aLove$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aChurch work with the poor 606 $aChurch work with the homeless 610 $a21st. 610 $aAmerican. 610 $aProtestantism. 610 $aargues. 610 $abetween. 610 $acentury. 610 $achurches. 610 $adivine. 610 $adynamic. 610 $aemerging. 610 $aessential. 610 $agodly. 610 $aheart. 610 $ahuman. 610 $alove--the. 610 $alove. 610 $aongoing. 610 $aperceived. 610 $areinvention. 610 $arelationship. 610 $aresponse--is. 610 $athat. 610 $athis. 610 $aunderstand. 610 $avision. 615 0$aChristianity 615 0$aEmerging church movement. 615 0$aPostmodernism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aPentecostalism. 615 0$aLove$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aChurch work with the poor. 615 0$aChurch work with the homeless. 676 $a277.3/083 700 $aPoloma$b Margaret M$01500712 701 $aHood$b Ralph W$01084177 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780606303321 996 $aBlood and fire$93727517 997 $aUNINA