The Challenges Of The Pentecostal, Charismatic And Messianic Jewish Movements (ashgate New Critical Thinking In Religion, Theology, And Biblical Studies)

The Challenges of the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Messianic Jewish Movements This book explores the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, tracing their development and their variety. Hocken shows how these movements of the Holy Spirit, both outside the mainline churches and as renewal currents within the churches, can be understood as mutually challenging and as complementary. The similarities and the differences are significant. The Messianic Jewish movement possesses elements of both, the new and the old. Addressing the issues of modernity and globalization, this book explores major phenomena in contemporary Christianity including the relationship between the new churches and entrepreneurial capitalism. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies The Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies series brings high quality research monograph publishing back into focus for authors, international libraries, and student, academic and research readers. Headed by an international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars spanning the breadth of religious studies, theology and biblical studies, this open-ended monograph series presents cutting-edge research from both established and new authors in the field. With specialist focus yet clear contextual presentation of contemporary research, books in the series take research into important new directions and open the field to new critical debate within the discipline, in areas of related study, and in key areas for contemporary society. Other titles in this series: Reading Anselm’s Proslogion The History of Anselm’s Argument and its Significance Today Ian Logan Jürgen Moltmann’s Ethics of Hope Eschatological Possibilities For Moral Action Timothy Harvie Phenomenology and Eschatology Not Yet in the Now Edited by Neal DeRoo and John Panteleimon Manoussakis The Identity of Christian Morality Ann Marie Mealey Evagrius Ponticus The Making of a Gnostic Julia Konstantinovsky Exodus Church and Civil Society Public Theology and Social Theory in the Work of Jürgen Moltmann Scott R. Paeth Anamnesis and the Eucharist Contemporary Anglican Approaches Julie Gittoes The Challenges of the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Messianic Jewish Movements The Tensions of the Spirit Peter Hocken © Peter Hocken 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Peter Hocken has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hocken, Peter The challenges of the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Messianic Jewish movements: the tensions of the spirit. – (Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies) 1. Pentecostalism 2. Messianic Judaism I. Title 2