عنوان

Heavenly Choirs In Earthy Spaces:

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LA123311

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Heavenly Choirs In Earthy Spaces:

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[Article]

Other Title Information

The Significance Of Corporate Spiritual Singing In Early Pentecostal Experience

First Statement of Responsibility

Kimberly Ervin Alexander

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

The phenomenon known as the heavenly choir was a common feature of early Pentecostal worship and revival, rivaled only by speaking in tongues. Participation in the heavenly choir was transformative of both singer and hearer, producing a desire for a fuller experience of God. The experience of participation in the communion of singers transformed the marginalized into prophetic leaders, their earthy meeting places became sanctuaries of 'heaven below'. This transformation was subversive in that dominant cultural constructs based on race, gender, class, ethnicity, and age were weakened if not toppled. Interpretation of this phenomenon by participants involved an approach to Scripture more dynamic than the later biblicism, interpreters finding resonance with the worship scenes in the book of Revelation rather than dependence upon a one-to-one correspondence of events in the Acts narrative or discourse by Paul, subverting later doctrinal construction beholden to Evangelical schemes. The phenomenon known as the heavenly choir was a common feature of early Pentecostal worship and revival, rivaled only by speaking in tongues. Participation in the heavenly choir was transformative of both singer and hearer, producing a desire for a fuller experience of God. The experience of participation in the communion of singers transformed the marginalized into prophetic leaders, their earthy meeting places became sanctuaries of 'heaven below'. This transformation was subversive in that dominant cultural constructs based on race, gender, class, ethnicity, and age were weakened if not toppled. Interpretation of this phenomenon by participants involved an approach to Scripture more dynamic than the later biblicism, interpreters finding resonance with the worship scenes in the book of Revelation rather than dependence upon a one-to-one correspondence of events in the Acts narrative or discourse by Paul, subverting later doctrinal construction beholden to Evangelical schemes.

Date of Publication

2016

Physical description

254-268

Title

Journal of Pentecostal Theology

Volume Number

25/2

International Standard Serial Number

1745-5251

Subject Term

heavenly choir

Subject Term

heavenly chorus

Subject Term

hermeneutics

Subject Term

Pentecostalism

Subject Term

singing in the Spirit

Subject Term

Spirit baptism

Subject Term

spiritual experience

Kimberly Ervin Alexander

Call Number

10.1163/17455251-02502007

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[Article]

275578

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