Contents
PEACE TO WAR


Foreword by Glen Stassen 9
Series Preface 14
Series Editor’s Foreword 15
Author’s Preface 19
Acknowledgments 24

Chapter One: Pentecostal Pacifists? • 29

Chapter Two: American, Christian, Pentecostal, and Pacifist: The Historical Context of the First-Generation Assemblies of God • 51

Chapter Three: Friends, Holiness, and the Full Gospel: The Theological Context of First-Generation Assemblies of God Pacifism • 81

Chapter Four: War Is Not Consistent with the Doctrines of Christ: The Assemblies of God Peace Witness from 1914-1940 • 131

Chapter Five: Unswerving Loyalty to the Government: The Seeds of Nationalism and Militarism from 1914-1940 • 177

Chapter Six: Fighting the Battle Against Conscience with Realism: Assemblies of God Attitudes toward War and Nation from 1941-1967 • 200

Chapter Seven: Accountability, Sensibility, and Responsibility: Assemblies of God Attitudes toward War and Nation from 1968-2007 • 254

Chapter Eight: “Discovering a Largely Forgotten Pentecostal Heritage”: Scholarly Analyses of Assemblies of God Pacifism • 293

Chapter Nine: But What about Jesus? The Ethical Transformation of the Assemblies of God • 329

Afterword
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
The Index
The Author

 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
             
             
             
           

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