Pentecostal pacifist impulse and the violent God of the Hebrew Bible: A balancing act of hermeneutics

Most early Pentecostals took a pacifist stance toward violence and war, based on Jesus’ example of love for the enemies, and relegated human violence promoted as God’s will in the Hebrew Bible to a description of broken and sinful human behaviour that was not viewed as normative for Christian behavi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marius Nel
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: OTSSA 2018-08-01
Series:Old Testament Essays
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1010-99192018000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en