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Holy War and Pentecostal Peace
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Published January 1, 1984
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October 4, 2024
As only the second review of this book on this app, I feel I must defend and advertise this five stars.
I started reading this book after finding a powerful endorsement in a footnote from Steven Land’s “Pentecostal Spirituality: A Passion for the Kingdom”:
“[read] esp. ch. 1 where the social, moral, and cosmic dimensions of Pentecost are delineated along with a call to the church to become a house of prayer for the healing of all nations. Valliere’s peace message is timely and carefully argued; Pentecostals [and Christians] would do well to consider it carefully.” (Footnote 122 of chapter 3)
Valliere’s first chapter does not disappoint. Valliere’s thesis is how the Holy Spirit is not only the provider of social, moral, and cosmic freedom, but creates within the Christian a “Holy Anarchy”. It is as much anarchy as was promised by Jesus to the Woman at the well. From there, Valliere continues to shape how the Holy Spirit, the platonic form of freedom, engages with war, revolutions, and peace. Creating, as he pens, a “Pentecostal Social Gospel” through the act of supplication. Valliere arrives at this conclusion to show how the modern promises of freedom, violence, and peace betray themselves into the structures they seek freedom from, thus they become all quasi-pentocasts, where the spirit of freedom reverently there but not the form. The political nature of violence and the violent nature of freedom (here represented as Anarchy) stare belligerently at each other. Valliere’s painstakingly through investigations into biblical holy wars, secular revolutions, and Pentecost’s endowment of freedom does the most fruitful commentary of the modern ages pressures on the Christian, and the fruit of peace is delivered to us to act upon.
The book is a powderkeg of wonderful thoughts, and yet it seems incomplete, or left obscure. Incomplete as it introduces an anarchical way of worldly engagement, relying upon the Holy Spirit to reaffirm this call of peace. Obscure, because it has not been republished since its 1983 publication, and the publishing house sold away the next year, to then become out of business. And, outside the Land’s book, I do not know of any other scholarly engagements to it.
You can now find it either on eBay or lending it through Open Archive (https://archive.org/details/holywarpe...)
I will come back to this book and I will be writing more about it.
I started reading this book after finding a powerful endorsement in a footnote from Steven Land’s “Pentecostal Spirituality: A Passion for the Kingdom”:
“[read] esp. ch. 1 where the social, moral, and cosmic dimensions of Pentecost are delineated along with a call to the church to become a house of prayer for the healing of all nations. Valliere’s peace message is timely and carefully argued; Pentecostals [and Christians] would do well to consider it carefully.” (Footnote 122 of chapter 3)
Valliere’s first chapter does not disappoint. Valliere’s thesis is how the Holy Spirit is not only the provider of social, moral, and cosmic freedom, but creates within the Christian a “Holy Anarchy”. It is as much anarchy as was promised by Jesus to the Woman at the well. From there, Valliere continues to shape how the Holy Spirit, the platonic form of freedom, engages with war, revolutions, and peace. Creating, as he pens, a “Pentecostal Social Gospel” through the act of supplication. Valliere arrives at this conclusion to show how the modern promises of freedom, violence, and peace betray themselves into the structures they seek freedom from, thus they become all quasi-pentocasts, where the spirit of freedom reverently there but not the form. The political nature of violence and the violent nature of freedom (here represented as Anarchy) stare belligerently at each other. Valliere’s painstakingly through investigations into biblical holy wars, secular revolutions, and Pentecost’s endowment of freedom does the most fruitful commentary of the modern ages pressures on the Christian, and the fruit of peace is delivered to us to act upon.
The book is a powderkeg of wonderful thoughts, and yet it seems incomplete, or left obscure. Incomplete as it introduces an anarchical way of worldly engagement, relying upon the Holy Spirit to reaffirm this call of peace. Obscure, because it has not been republished since its 1983 publication, and the publishing house sold away the next year, to then become out of business. And, outside the Land’s book, I do not know of any other scholarly engagements to it.
You can now find it either on eBay or lending it through Open Archive (https://archive.org/details/holywarpe...)
I will come back to this book and I will be writing more about it.
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