Dreams and Visions in African Pentecostal Spirituality

The Sub-Saharan Horizon of the Pneumatological Imagination

Anna M. Droll (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54121-4 (ISBN)

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This book argues for the significance of the visionary life for Pentecostal spirituality by providing the first focused examination of Pentecostal-Charismatic dreams and visions. It engages extensively with African scholarship while also highlighting the contemporary voices of African visioners.

Euro-Western descriptions of knowledge and its sources fall short of accommodating the spiritual, experiential terrain of the imagination. What of the embodied, affective knowing that characterizes Pentecostal epistemology, that is, the distinctive Pentecostal-Charismatic knowing derived from dreams and visions (D/Vs)? In this stunning ethnographic work, the author merges African scholarship with an investigation of what visioners say about the significance of their D/Vs for Christian life and spirituality. Revealing data showcases case studies for their biblical and theological articulations of the value of D/V experiences and affirms them as sources of Pentecostal love, ministerial agency, and the missionary impulse.

Rev. Anna M. Droll, Ph.D. (2021), Fuller Theological Seminary, is Division Chair for Ministry at South Florida Theological Seminary. Ordained by the Assemblies of God, she has published several articles, including "Dreams, Visions and the African Melodrama” (in PentecoStudies).

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

1 Dreams and Visions in African Pentecostal Spirituality

1 Dreams, Visions, and Pentecostal Epistemology

1.1 Dreams and Visions in Africa: Piercing the Veil for Pentecostal Knowing

1.2 A Dream in Dar es Salaam

2 Methodology: Mark J. Cartledge: Practical Theology for Charismatic Practitioners

2.1 Renewal Methodologies

2.2 Renewalist Hermeneutics

2.3 Experience and Affectivity

3 Concepts for Exploring Dream and Vision Narratives

3.1 The Big Dream and the Spontaneous Dream or Vision Narrative

3.2 Root Metaphor and Piercing the Veil

3.3 Populations, Codes, Frequencies, and Associations for Narrative Analyses

4 Author’s Location, Thesis, and Map of this Book

2 Dreams, Visions, and Near East Religions

1 Dreams and Visions and Hebraic Theology

1.1 Dreams, Visions, and Patriarchs

1.2 Dreams, Visions, Kings, and Prophets

1.3 Dreams and Visions in the Apocrypha and Jewish Thought

2 Dreams and Visions in Christianity

2.1 Dreams and Visions in the New Testament and Early Church

2.2 Dreams and Visions in Late Patristic Thought

2.3 Aquinas, Kant, and Swedenborg on Dreams and Visions

3 Dreams and Visions in Islam

3.1 Dreams and Visions in the Qurʾān and Hadith

3.2 Dream Manuals and Their Transmission in Islam

3.3 Dreams and Visions as Legitimizing Elements in Islam

4 Conclusion

3 Dreams and Visions in African Contexts

1 Dreams in Traditional African Religions

1.1 Dreaming and the Akan

1.2 Dreams and the Diola of Senegambia

1.3 Islam and Dreaming among the Tukolor Weavers

2 Dreams and Visions in the aic s and among Zambian Baptists

2.1 Dreams and Visions in New Movements of West Africa

2.2 Dreams and Visions and the Bantu Prophets

2.3 Dreams and Visions among Zambian Baptists

3 Opoku Onyinah on Pentecostal Dreams, Prophecy, and Angels

3.1 The Role of Dreams and Visions in Abisa

3.2 The Sleeping State and the Diagnosis of Witchdemonology

3.3 The Sleeping State and Angelology

4 Conclusion

4 Epistemology: African Perspectives

1 Knowledge, Ontology, and the Holy Spirit

1.1 Voices from African Studies

1.2 Voices from African Christianity

1.3 The Holy Spirit and Knowing

2 Nigerian Perspectives for Dreams and Visions Analyses

2.1 Pentecostal Principle and Emergence for Dreams and Visions Analyses

2.2 Piercing the Veil for Dreams and Visions Analyses

2.3 Spiritual Warfare and Dreams and Visions

3 Conclusion

5 The Big Dreams of African Pentecostals Visionary Impact and the Christian Life

1 Continuity and Discontinuity: Dreams and Visions and the Spirit in Africa

1.1 Spirit Hermeneutics and Universal Dreams

1.2 The Spirit and Ancestor Dreams

1.3 The Agency of the Spirit and Pentecostal Visioners

2 Dreams and Visions and the Christian Life

2.1 Visioners and Spirit–Word–Community

2.2 Dreams, Visions and Practical Spirituality

2.3 Attitudes in the Church toward Dreams and Visions

3 Conclusion

6 Dreams and Visions and the Pentecostal Warrior Prayer, Identity, and Agency

1 Dreams and Visions and the Pentecostal Pray-er

1.1 Dreams and Visions and the Pentecostal Warrior

1.2 The dame Dream or Vision and Pentecostal Agency

2 Dreams and Visions and Pentecostal Agency

2.1 The Agency of Visionary Women

2.2 Visionary Love and Ministerial Agency

2.3 The Visionary Church and Missionary Agency

3 Conclusion

7 African Dreams and Visions for Pentecostal Epistemologies

1 African Dreams for African Pentecostal Theology

2 African Dreams for Western Pentecostal Epistemologies

2.1 Religious Language and Hearing God’s Voice

2.2 Relational Knowing and Orthopathy

2.3 Embodied Knowing

2.4 Knowing in the Trialectic of Spirit–Word–Community

3 Conclusion

8 Conclusion Dreams, Visions, and the Missiological Spirit

Appendix 1 Written Survey and Interview Guide

Appendix 2 Coding for Surveys and Personal Interviews

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies ; 45
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	413 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-54121-7 / 9004541217
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54121-4 / 9789004541214
Zustand	Neuware