Scripting Pentecost ─ A Study of Pentecostals, Worship and Liturgy

Scripting Pentecost explores and develops an analysis of worship and liturgy in Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions. Organized into three main sections, history, theology, and contemporary practice, the first section quarries the historical trajectories of classic Pentecostalism, the Charismatic movement, Third-Wave, and Oneness Pentecostalism. Particular attention is given to the liturgical approaches of some of the earliest leaders, including William J. Seymour, Alexander Boddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson. The second section, constructive theology, offers theological approaches to liturgical studies from Pentecostal and Charismatic perspectives. In this section the Pentecostal and Charismatic tradition is advanced and extended by an interaction with ecumenical sources. The third section, case studies in contemporary worship theology and practice, examines the actual performance of liturgy through selected global case studies chosen to reflect a diversity of ecclesial practice in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and Oceania.

Mark J. Cartledge is Professor of Practical Theology at Regent University School of Divinity, Virginia Beach, USA. He is also the Director of the Center for Renewal Studies in the University. He is the author of two Ashgate Books,Charismatic Glossolalia (2002) and Testimony in the Spirit (2010). His most recent book in the Pentecostal Manifesto series is entitledMediation of the Spirit: Interventions in Practical Theology (2015). His current research is part of a major Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project looking at megachurches and their social engagement in London. The book from this project is entitled Transforming the City (2017).

A. J. Swoboda pastors Theophilus church in urban Portland, Oregon and is the founding director of Blessed Earth Northwest, an organization turning the hearts and hands of Jesus’ people to Jesus’ creation. He teaches theology, Bible, and pastoral studies at Fuller and George Fox Evangelical seminaries. As well, A.J. authored A Glorious Dark(Baker) and Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology (Baker Academic), among other books. His website and blog can be found at www.ajswoboda.com. He is @mrajswoboda on Twitter.