Social concern in the context of Jesus' kingdom, mission and ministry

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 43-53

  Dempster, Murray W ^a  

^a Vanguard University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

eschatology; kingdom; neighbour; Pentecost

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992817969     PISSN: 02653788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026537889901600203     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Frank Bartleman, Another Wave Rolls In!, John G. Myers, ed. (Northridge, CA: Voice Publications, 1970), pp. 64, 65.
2. L. Grant McClung, Jr., ‘Missiology’, in Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Stanley M. Burgess and Gary B. McGee, eds. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988), p. 607.
3. Walter J. Hollenweger, the acknowledged Dean of Pentecostal studies, in his recent book Pentecostalism: Origins and Developments Worldwide (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1997)
4. Editorial, ‘Sidetracked!’, Mountain Movers 31 (March 1989), p. 3, and J. Philip Hogan, ‘Because Jesus Did’, Mountain Movers 31 (June 1989), pp. 10-11.
5. Orlando E. Costas, The Integrity of Mission: The Inner Life and Outreach of the Church (San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1979), p. 75.
6. ‘Evangelism, social concern, and the kingdom of God’, in Called & Empowered: Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective, Murray W. Dempster, Byron D. Klaus, and Douglas Petersen, eds. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991), pp. 22-43.
7. Roger Stronstad, The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1984), pp. 2-5.
8. Frank D. Macchia, Spirituality and Social Liberation: The Message of the Blumhardts in the Light of Wuerttemberg Pietism, with Implications for Pentecostal Theology (D. Theol. Dissertation: University of Basel: 1989), pp. 296-304.
9. Stronstad, Charismatic Theology, pp. 33-62.
10. Gordon D. Fee, ‘The kingdom of God and the church's global mission,’ in Called & Empowered: Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective, Murray W. Dempster, Byron D. Klaus, Douglas Petersen, eds. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991), p. 8.
11. Paul A. Pomerville's pioneering work on Pentecostal missiology, The Third Force in Missions (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1985).
12. Peter Kuzmic ‘Thus the apostolic “to know Christ” became equivalent of the synoptic “entry into the Kingdom”.’ ‘Kingdom of God,’ DPCM, pp. 525-6.
13. Gordon D. Fee, ‘The kingdom of God and the church's global mission,’ in Called & Empowered, pp. 7-21
14. George Eldon Ladd, Jesus and the Kingdom: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1964).
15. See especially the chapter, ‘The kingdom: reign or realm?’ in Ladd, Jesus and the Kingdom, pp. 118-44.
16. George Eldon Ladd, The Presence of the Future (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1974).
17. These morally significant Old Testament concepts are development more fully in my article, ‘Pentecostal social concern and the biblical mandate of social justice’, PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 9 (Fall 1987), pp. 129-153.
18. Walter C. Kaiser, Toward Old Testament Ethics (Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1983), p. 38.
19. T. B. Maston, Biblical Ethics (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1967), p. 282.
20. Harvey K. McArthur, Understanding the Sermon on the Mount (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1960).
21. Joachim Jeremias, The Sermon on the Mount, No. 2 in the Facet books Biblical Series (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1963), pp. 23, 30-31.
22. Larry L. Rasmussen, ‘Creation, church and Christian responsibility’ in Tending the Garden: Essays in the Gospel and the Earth, ed. By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987), p. 188.
23. Wolfgang Schrage, The Ethics of the New Testament, trans by David E. Green (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress press, 1988), p. 78.
24. Allen Verhey, The Great Reversal: Ethics and the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1984), p. 25.
25. Jeremias, Sermon, pp. 30-31.
26. Ron Farmer, ‘The kingdom of God in the gospel of Matthew’, in The Kingdom of God in 20th-Century Interpretation, ed. Wendell Willis (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1987), p. 127.
27. H. Richard Niebuhr who first outlined the features of a response ethic in The Responsible Self (New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1963), p. 126.
28. T. B. Maston, Biblical Ethics, pp. 10, 22, 34-35, 146.
29. Schrage, Ethics of the New Testament, pp. 73, 74.
30. William Lillie, Studies in New Testament Ethics (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1961), pp. 118-25.
31. Schrage, Ethics of the New Testament, pp. 95, 97.
32. Walter Rauschenbusch, The Social Principles of Jesus (New York and London: Association Press, 1916), p. 85.
33. Schrage, Ethics of the New Testament, p. 113.
34. Ethelbert Stauffer, Christ and the Caesars (London: SCM Press, 1955), pp. 133-4; 135-6.
35. Schrage, Ethics of the New Testament, p. 113.
36. Joachim Jeremias, Rediscovering the Parables, trans. By S. H. Hooks and Frank Clarke (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966), p. 111.
37. Allan Boesak, ‘The eye of the needle’, International Review of Mission 72 (January 1983), p. 8.
38. Sherman W. Gray, ‘The least of my brothers, Matthew 25:31-46. A history of interpretation’, SBL Dissertation Series 114 (Atlanta Scholars Press, 1989)
39. Bruce Chilton and J. I. H. McDonald, Jesus and the Ethics of the Kingdom (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987), p. 82.
40. Bruce C. Birch and Larry L. Rasmussen, Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life, Revised and Expanded Edition (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1989), pp. 189-202. The quote is from p. 19.