Fire From Heaven Summary

Fire from Heaven By, finishing up the readings in Module 5 from the Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century, one will take what they learned and apply it to their daily life. In this book of Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century, the author Harvey Cox provides a provoking memoir of this explosion of spirituality. Which he sees a change that signifies no less than the tidal transformation of what religion is and what it means to people from all walks of life. In this Fire from Heaven paper, I will share what I learned thus far as well as provide a summary of the history of the Pentecostal Movement and the regions represented in chapters 9-12. Whereas I have

According to Cox, (1995) how Christianity had an impact on Latin America when “Pentecostalism began its remarkable career in Brazil shortly after the turn of the century two Swedish laymen Gunnar Vingren and Daniel Berg were removed from its small Baptist church for speaking in tongues” (p. 61). Truly, we live in a society where there are many churches who have a way about their culture. Especially when one does not understand the culture of speaking in tongues from a Pentecostal point of view. Even so, many Pentecostal churches today has spreaded throughout the world like wildfire. According to Kwon, (2006) stated, “Pentecostalism is thriving in Latin America with spirit-filled Christians who has established at least a third of the overall population in parts of the southern continent. Which the impact of Pentecostalism on Latin America’s religious landscape has been thoughtful and the progress of the Pentecostal have led them to pursue a greater share of public influence and political