Origin and Development of the ‘New Apostolic Reformation’ in South Africa: A Neo-Pentecostal Movement or a Post-Pentecostal Phenomenon?

Within South African Pentecostal/Charismatic spheres, since 2000, a new configuration has surfaced that has been called the ‘New Apostolic Reformation’ (NAR). The adherents of this movement have sounded a call for the Pentecostal/Charismatic church, in particular, to return to what they describe as the ‘Apostolicity’ of the church. The emergence of this New Apostolic Reformation is more than a South African phenomenon. C Peter Wagner, almost a decade and a half ago, in his book, Churchquake (1999: 5-8) contended that there were, at least forty thousand ‘Apostolic‘ churches representing approximately eight to ten million members in the USA. He asserted that this New Apostolic Reformation is also rapidly growing in all of the six continents and is the ‘greatest change in the way of doing church since the Protestant Reformation.’ In South Africa the following New Apostolic Reformation groupings have emerged, namely the New Covenant Ministries International (NCMI), Grace International (GI), Congress World Breakthrough Network (C-WBN), International Strategic Alliance of Apostolic Churches (ISAAC) and Judah Kingdom Alliance (JKA). The paper will also contend with the nature and extent of their deviation from ‘mainstream’ Pentecostal doctrines and practices. A number of theories have attempted to explain the emergence of new religious movements (NRMs), inter alia, deprivation, revitalisation, and brainwashing. This study focuses on one of these theories, namely, revitalisation, but also favours a holistic approach to an understanding of the NAR

Measuring the lung function in the mouse: the challenge of size

Measurement of the effects of drugs, mediators and infectious agents on various models of lung disease, as well as assessment of lung function in the intact mouse has the potential for significantly advancing our knowledge of lung disease. However, the small size of the mouse presents significant challenges for the assessment of lung function. Because of compromises made between precision and noninvasiveness, data obtained may have an uncertain bearing on the mechanical response of the lung. Nevertheless, considerable recent progress has been made in developing valid and useful measures of mouse lung function. These advances, resulting in our current ability to measure sophisticated indices of lung function in laboratory animals, are likely to lead to important insights into the mechanisms of lung disease

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 11, No. 10, July 1895

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Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 11, No. 7, April 1895

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Catalyst for carbon monoxide oxidation

A catalyst is disclosed for the combination of CO and O2 to form CO2, which includes a platinum group metal (e.g., platinum); a reducable metal oxide having multiple valence states (e.g., SnO2); and a compound which can bind water to its structure (e.g., silica gel). This catalyst is ideally suited for application to high-powered pulsed, CO2 lasers operating in a sealed or closed-cycle condition

Exploring the Use of Conversations with Virtual Agents in Assessment Contexts

Conversations with computer agents can be used to measure skills that may be difficult to accomplish using tra-ditional multiple-choice assessments. In order to achieve natural conversations in this form of assessment, we are exploringissues related to how test-takers interact with computer agents, such as what dialogue moves lead to interpretable responses,the influence of “cognitive characteristics” of computer agents, how should the system adapt to test-taker responses, and howthese interactions impact test-taker emotions and affect. In this presentation we will discuss our current research addressingthese questions, illustrating important dimensions that are involved with designing a conversation space and how each designdecision can impact multiple factors within assessment contexts

Towards a postcolonial Pentecostal historiography : ramblings from the South

Peer reviewedThis article focuses on contestations around the birth of Pentecostalism. Azusa Street Pentecostalism is very well documented therefore the bias was tilted in its favour. While this expression of Pentecostalism opened up new frontiers it also displayed some regrettable retreats around the issue of race relations. In stark contrast, both in South Africa and in Brazil, inter alia, societal concerns, inclusive of racial issues have been taken up by a new breed of Pentecostals. The current state of Pentecostalism reveals that the majority of Pentecostals live outside of the USA and Canada and that the rapidly emerging churches in the southern world are Pentecostal and indigenous, and function autonomously from Western Pentecostalism. Starting from the eighties, large independent Pentecostal churches have emerged in Africa. African Pentecostalism in South Africa is a relevant, flexible and rapidly increasing Christian formation. Unlike the dualistic tendencies of Western Christian approaches, the African Pentecostal worldview does not separate the physical from the spiritual or the individual from the social. Los Angeles cannot be viewed as the “Jerusalem” from which the “full gospel” imperialistically emanated centrifugally to the world. Other equally significant and simultaneous Pentecostal outpourings have been overlooked. Pentecostalism historiography may have to engage in perhaps one of the most important postcolonial ecclesiastical reconstructions yet.Research Institute for Theology and Religio

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 11, No. 8, May 1895

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Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 11, No. 9, June 1895

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