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3 A REVIEW OF PENTECOSTAL SPIRITUALITY: A PASSION FOR THE KINGDOM by Steven J. Land Harvey Cox* The Divinity School Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 USA It seems wholly fitting that this clear, engaging and rigorous book on the theology of Pentecostalism does not have the word ’theology’ in the title. Steven Land insists, quietly but persuasively, throughout his land- mark work that the basic symbolic worldview of the Pentecostal move- ment is not to be found in books and monographs but in the spirituality of a people. But he not only makes this claim, he follows it up by actu- ally drawing on Pentecostal spirituality as the major resource for his pre- sentation. Indeed, despite the recent rediscovery of popular piety by some academic theologians, I have rarely seen a theological treatment which utilizes hymns, prayers and liturgical resources with such skill. At times I was reminded of the way James Cone makes use of excerpts from black spirituals and sermons in his work, and the way feminist theologians draw on the life stories of other women. Land’s book is thus a more explicit and lucid example of a method that might well be used by more
Journal of Pentecostal Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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