The Ministry of the Spirit

by Allen, Roland; Paton, David M.; Sanneh, Lamin

• ISBN13: 9781610975971
• ISBN10: 1610975979
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-06
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

Roland Allen is renowned for his original solutions to dilemmas about mission. His principal works were written in the opening decades of the twentieth century, yet his radical ideas still resound in today's church. The Ministry of the Spirit brings together some of his shorter pieces which have long been unavailable, enabling today's readers to delve deeper into Allen's ideas. Among them are "Pentecost and the World," "Non-Professional Missionaries," "Mission Activities," and an abbreviation of "The Case for Voluntary Clergy." The writings collected in The Ministry of the Spirit sit with Allen's better-known work and are no less penetrating and suggestive for the mission of the church. Allen's fundamental belief in centrality of the work of the Holy Spirit to church life shapes his conclusion. As Professor Lamin Sanneh says in his Foreword, it is "hard to believe that Allen first broached these ideas nearly a hundred years ago, for they are so redolent with contemporary meaning."

Table of Contents

Frontispiece
Introductory Essay	p. III
Editorial Foreword to first (1960) edition	p. XVII
Biographical Memoir	p. XIX
Pentecost and the World	p. 1
The Gift of the Holy Spirit	p. 3
The Spirit Revealed as the Inspirer of Missionary Work	p. 13
The Revelation of the Spirit as Creating an Internal Necessity for Missionary Work	p. 22
The Spirit Revealing the Need of Men	p. 29
The Administration of the Spirit	p. 39
The Spirit the Source and Test of New Forms of Missionary Activity	p. 44
The Gift of the Spirit the Sole Test of Communion	p. 52
Conclusion	p. 59
Non-Professional Missionaries
Mission Activities Considered in Relation to the Manifestation of the Spirit
St Paul and the Judaizers: A Dialogue
An Illustration from V. S. Azariah
The Case for Voluntary Clergy
Principles, not Expediency, the Apostolic Rule of Judgement	p. 137
The Apostolic Qualifications for the Ministry	p. 139
Vocation	p. 143
The Meaning and Place of Voluntary Clergy	p. 147
Why?	p. 155
Appeals	p. 160
Desertion Unnecessary	p. 163
Itinerant Clergy	p. 166
Lay Readers	p. 170
Teaching	p. 174
Domination	p. 178
The Lesson to be Learnt	p. 183
To the Parishioners of Chalfont St Peter
Bibliography	p. 199
Index of Bible References	p. 205
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