Signs and Wonders: Why Pentecostalism Is the World’s Fastest Growing Faith by Paul Alexander
Combining personal stories and sound scholarship, Paul Alexander, a young scholar with a Pentecostal background, examines the phenomenal worldwide success of Pentecostalism. While brought up a Pentecostal, the author studied under John Howard Yoder and Stanley Hauerwas. On a journey thru extreme doubts and a period as an “atheist christian” he eventually found his way back to a real faith, and founded a group called “Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice.”
He critiques Pentecostalism but comes down in defence of it. As a serious social justice campaigner, he concludes that “Liberation theology opted for the poor, but the poor opted for Pentecostalism.”
A longer review can be found at http://www.ucc.org/news/book-review-signs-and.html.
In the foreword, Martin Marty endorses it and even the old campaigner Harvey Cox says it answers his questions.
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