Pentecostal Liturgical Theology: On the Altar, Willed to Pentecost (T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology)

This book explores how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost.A liturgical turn has marked recent Pentecostal studies, producing a growing body of liturgical theologies.This cutting edge work analyses four theologians at its forefront: Tanya Riches, Daniela Augustine, Chris E.W.Green, and Wolfgang Vondey. It does so through a "liturgy as primary theology" approach, which defines liturgy as "the church at prayer”.Here, Rice shows how Pentecostal experience clarifies liturgy as the church at prayer on the altar.Drawing from critical discourse analysis, continental philosophy, and Aristotelian wisdom, this incisive book proceeds by narrating a healing soteriology that makes humanity willed to the common good signified by Pentecost.Working from Walter Hollenweger’s insights on the ecumenical promise of Pentecostal liturgy, Rice identifies inclusivity, liberative spirituality, Majority World epistemology, gift-sharing community,