{"product_id":"blood-and-fire-godly-love-in-a-pentecostal-emerging-church-9780814767481","title":"Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to live out the theology presented in the Great Commandment to \"love God above all and to love your neighbor as yourself\"? In \u003cb\u003eBlood and Fire\u003c\/b\u003e, Poloma and Hood explore how understandings of godly love function to empower believers. Though godly love may begin as a perceived relationship between God and a person, it is made manifest as social behavior among people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlood and Fire\u003c\/b\u003e offers a deep ethnographic portrait of a charismatic church and its faith-based ministry, illuminating how religiously motivated social service makes use of beliefs about the nature of God's love. It traces the triumphs and travails associated with living a set of rigorous religious ideals, providing a richly textured analysis of a faith community affiliated with the \"emerging church\" movement in Pentecostalism, one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic religious movements of our day.\u003cbr\u003eBased on more than four years of interviews and surveys with people from all levels of the organization, from the leader to core and marginal members to the poor and addicts they are seeking to serve, \u003cb\u003eBlood and Fire\u003c\/b\u003e sheds light on the differing worldviews and religious perceptions between those who served in as well as those who were served by this ministry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlood and Fire\u003c\/b\u003e argues that godly love-- the relationship between perceived divine love and human response-- is at the heart of the vision of emerging churches, and that it is essential to understand this dynamic if one is to understand the ongoing reinvention of American Protestantism in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret M. Poloma, Ralph W. Hood Jr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814767481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2008 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoloma, Margaret M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMargaret M. Poloma\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at the University of Akron. She is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eMain Street Mystics\u003c\/i\u003e, and (with Ralph W. Hood, Jr.) \u003ci\u003eBlood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU Press, 2008).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHood Jr, Ralph W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRalph Hood, Jr., \u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMeasures of Religiosity\u003c\/i\u003e; and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Religious Experience\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40183704682611,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":48.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a71fb164-fe56-4212-9083-d61616f1a318.jpg?v=1655558301","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/blood-and-fire-godly-love-in-a-pentecostal-emerging-church-9780814767481","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}