The Spirit, Indigenous Peoples and Social Change

Māori and a Pentecostal Theology of Social Engagement
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36464-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies

In The Spirit, Indigenous Peoples and Social Change Michael Frost explores a pentecostal theology of social engagement in relation to Maori in New Zealand. Pentecostalism has had an ambiguous relationship with Maori and, in particular, lacks a robust and coherent theological framework for engaging in issues of social concern. Drawing on a number of interviews with Maori pentecostal leaders and ministers, Frost explores the transformative role of pentecostal experience for Maori cultural identity, a holistic theology of mission, an indigenous prophetic emphasis, and consequent connections between pentecostalism and liberation. He thus contributes a way forward for pentecostal theologies of social change in relation to Maori, with implications for pentecostalism and indigenous peoples in the West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

J Frost, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Glossary of Maori Terms
Introduction:Pentecostalism and Indigenous Peoples in the West
PART 1
Global Pentecostalism and Social Engagement
1 Pentecostalism and Social Concern
1.1 What is Pentecostalism?
1.2 Pentecostal Distinctives
1.2.2 Experiential Spirituality
1.2.3 Premillennial Eschatology
1.2.4 Mission, Contextualization and Indigenization
1.2.5 Summary
1.3 Pentecostals and Social Engagement
1.3.1 Pentecostalism and the Disinherited
1.3.2 Progressive Pentecostalism
1.3.3 Pentecostals, the Protestant Ethic and Capitalism
1.3.4 The Pentecostal Prosperity Gospel
1.3.5 Summary
2 A Pentecostal Approach to Theology
2.1 Why Pentecostal Theology?
2.2 Pentecostal Theology and the Full Gospel
2.3 Pentecostal Theology as Pneumatological and Experiential
2.3.1 Pentecostal Theology as Pneumatologically Centered
2.3.1.1 Frank Macchia and Spirit Baptism
2.3.1.2 Amos Yong and Foundational Pneumatology
2.3.2 Pentecostal Theology and Pentecostal Experience
2.3.3 Pentecostal Experience and Scripture
2.3.3.1 Pentecostals and Luke- Acts
2.4 Pentecostal Theology as Eschatological
2.5 Pentecostal Theology, Contextualization and Indigenization
2.6 Summary
3 Towards a Pentecostal Theology of Social Engagement
3.1 Pentecostal Empowerment and Social Change
3.1.1 The Spirit, Pentecostal Experience and Personal Transformation
3.1.2 The Materiality of the Pentecostal Life: Healing, Prosperity and Blessing
3.1.3 The Pentecostal Church as Empowered Community
3.2 Pentecostalism and the Ministry of Social Welfare
3.2.1 The Spirit, Pentecostal Experience and Empowerment for Mission
3.2.2 The Spirit and the Kingdom
3.3 Pentecostalism and Social Action
3.4 Summary
PART 2
A Pentecostal Theology of Social Engagement with a Particular Focus on Maori
4 New Zealand Pentecostalism, Social Engagement and Maori
4.1 The Socio- political Context of Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand
4.1.1 Early Colonization and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
4.1.2 Betrayal of Te Tiriti
4.1.3 The Rise of the Prophets
4.1.3.1 Kingitanga
4.1.3.2 Pai Marire (Hauhau)
4.1.3.3 Ringatu
4.1.4 The Current Socio- Political Context
4.2 New Zealand Pentecostalism and Maori
4.3 Summary
5 Maori Pentecostals and Issues of Social Concern
5.1 Interviews and Thematic Analysis
5.1.1 A Contextualist Approach to Thematic Analysis
5.2 Themes
5.2.1 Issues of Social Concern for Maori
5.2.1.1 Maori, Identity, Marginalization and Cultural Dislocation
5.2.1.2 Maori, Identity, Land and Language
5.2.1.3 Maori, Identity and Pentecostalism
5.2.2 Cultural Identity and Pentecostal Experience
5.2.3 Fusion of the Social and Spiritual
5.2.3.1 Social Concerns as Spiritual Concerns
5.2.3.2 Pentecostal Experience and Material Reality
5.2.4 Church as Prophetic Community
5.2.4.1 Critique of Structures and Systems
5.2.4.2 The Church as an Alternative Community
5.2.4.3 Pentecostalism, Maori and the Spirit of Prophecy
5.3 Summary
6 Towards a Pentecostal Theology of Social Engagement in Relation to the Socio- Political Context of Maori in New Zealand
6.1 The Spirit, Ethnicity and Cultural Identity
6.1.1 Pentecostal Experience, Identity and Maori
6.1.2 Pentecostal Experience and the Affirmation of Ethnic Identity
6.1.3 Pentecostal Experience and Conscientization
6.2 Issues of Social and Spiritual Concern
6.2.1 A Move Away from Dualism
6.2.2 The Kingdom of God and Holism
6.2.3 From Prosperity to Materiality
6.3 The Prophetic Potential of New Zealand Pentecostalism
6.3.1 An Eschatological Assist
6.3.2 Pentecostalism, Prophecy and the Powers
6.3.3 A Pentecostal and Prophetic Community
6.4 Summary
7 Implications for a Global Pentecostal Theology of Social Engagement
7.1 Dualism or Holism in a Global Pentecostal Theology of Social Engagement
7.2 Prophetic Pentecostalism, the Demonic and Confronting the Powers
7.3 Global Pentecostalism and Liberation
7.4 Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
Subject and Author Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael J. Frost, Ph.D (2016), University of Otago, lectures theology at Alphacrucis College in New Zealand. He originally studied science, exploring the relationship between emotional trauma and personal wellbeing, but his recent theological research focuses on pentecostalism and social transformation.