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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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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OTSSA
2018-08-01
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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 |