Part I. Dynamics of Renewal
1. Jonathan Edwards and the Jesus Movement
2. Biblical Models of Cyclical and Continuous Renewal
3. Preconditions of Continuous Renewal
4. Primary Elements of Continuous Renewal
5. Secondary Elements in Renewal
Part II. Renewal in the Church
6. The Renewal of the Local Congregation
7. The Sanctification Gap
8. How Revivals Go Wrong
9. Live Orthodoxy
10. Unitive Evangelism
11. The Evangelical Muse
12. The Spiritual Roots of Christian Social Concern
13. Prospects for Renewal
Notes
Index
Richard F. Lovelace (Th.D., Princeton) is emeritus professor of church history at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and the author of Homosexuality and the Church (Revell) and The American Pietism of Cotton Mather (Eerdmans).
"Why is Lovelace's writing a must-read? It's a madly efficient use
of your mental and spiritual energy. For pastors, church planters,
missional leaders, and thinking Christians, the benefits of this
book will be well worth the effort."
*Coram Deo (cdomaha.com/blog), July 22, 2008*
"Here is more evidence of growing Evangelical concern with renewal,
spirituality and the historic witness of Christianity. Dynamics of
Spiritual Life is a major new contribution to our understanding of
God's action in the church and in history. While writing from an
essentially Reformed perspective, Lovelace remains open to other
traditions, including contemporary Neo-Pentecostalism, and is
sensitive to God's renewing action historically within Roman
Catholicism as well as in Anabaptism, Pietism and other Protestant
renewal movements."
*Howard A. Snyder, author of The Problem of Wineskins and
Liberating the Church*
"We need a book like this at this time. Lovelace has done the job
in a sensitive, insightful, readable way. His work deserves a
readership far beyond the Evangelical tradition out of which it
grows."
*Mark J. Link, S.J., author of These Stones Will Shout and The
Seventh Trumpet*
"Disciples of Jesus Christ who know the cost of discipleship, heirs
of grace who treasure its costly gifts, and men and women of taste
and scholarship and civil impulse have good reason for wishing the
author luck. No, put that not 'luck' but 'steadfastness' and
'grace.'"
*Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago*
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