Blood and Fire by Margaret M. Poloma HARDBACK 9780814767481

Blood and FireGodly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church\nAuthor(s): Margaret M. Poloma, Ralph W. Hood Jr.\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814767481, 978-0814767481\nSynopsis\nWhat does it mean to live out the theology presented in the Great Commandment to \""love God above all and to love your neighbor as yourself\""? In Blood and Fire, Poloma and Hood explore how understandings of godly love function to empower believers. Though godly love may begin as a perceived relationship between God and a person, it is made manifest as social behavior among people.\n Blood and Fire offers a deep ethnographic portrait of a charismatic church and its faith-based ministry, illuminating how religiously motivated social service makes use of beliefs about the nature of God's love. It traces the triumphs and travails associated with living a set of rigorous religious ideals, providing a richly textured analysis o.