Holy hustlers, schism, and prophecy. Apostolic reformation in Botswanaby Werbner, Richard

Discourse Analysis of the Reformation of Religious Knowledge in the Constitutional Age (Case Study: The Holy Spirit(

The confrontation of Iranian intellectuals with the Western civilization of the constitutional age led to the acceptance of Western ideas by the elites at this historical juncture, which had emerged as traditionalist, modernist discourses and reformed religious knowledge. This article seeks to recognize the characteristics of the Discourse of Religious Knowledge Reform in the Holy Spirit. Criti...

Prelude, prophecy, and promise.

Unity and Schism : Determinative Biblical Principles 2

Schism The noun schism (schisma) which occurs eight times in the New Testament, is derived from the verb schizo to split, to separate, to tear apart, to cleave, to rend. Schisma can sometimes simply mean an actual tear, as in Matthew 9: 16 where Jesus says 'No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made' (cf. Lk. 5: 3...

Prophecy and Theater

The paradigms used to examine the Hebrew prophetic literature are changing. This paper contributes to that change by developing a paradigm drawn from Drama Theory and applying that paradigm to the vision reports found in the book of Amos. The outcome is a form critical study that yields beneficial results in understanding both the design and flow of the visions as well as their integration with...

The Antichrist in Prophecy

The designation "Antichrist," appearing only in the epistles of John (1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 7), is made up of the Greek words anti ("against, in place of") and christos ("Christ"), and indicates any agent of the evil one (Satan) who acts contrary to or as a counterfeit of God's Anointed who is destined to rule the world in the end time (Psalm 2:2, 6-8; 110:1-2; Isaiah 9:6-7, et. al.). Th...