Christianity Without The Cross
Thomas A. Fudge

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abbreviations............................................................................................

v
Introduction...............................................................................................
1
   
Chapter 1 Currents & Confluence in Pre-Oneness Pentecostal Theology...................................................................................................
9
Charles Parham, Topeka, Kansas, 1901........................................................
9
Historical and theological trajectories............................................................
12
A third work of grace ...................................................................................
13
Restoration of the New Testament Church.....................................................
16
The eschatological impetus..........................................................................
22
Personal revelation and private interpretation..................................................
26
Azusa Street, 1906......................................................................................
29
William H. Durham and the 'finished work of Calvary'.......................................
36
The institutionalizing of Pentecostalism.........................................................
41
   
Chapter 2 The 'New Issue' Controversy.....................................................
43
Birth of the 'new issue'.................................................................................
45
The role of E.N. Bell....................................................................................
49
Showdown at St.Louis, 1916........................................................................
54
Durham's influence on the new theology........................................................
58
Return of the Oneness Pentecostals.............................................................
60
Doctrinal development of the 'new issue'.......................................................
64
Implications for the doctrine of salvation........................................................
71
   
Chapter 3 A Oneness Pentecostal Doctrine of Salvation...........................
75
Two churches and two concepts of salvation..................................................
75
How prevalent was the 'water and Spirit' doctrine in 1945? ..............................
80
An alternative view.......................................................................................
83
The problem of the new birth at the time of the merger....................................
95
Why the merger succeeded in 1945..............................................................
100
The promise and the problem of Howard A. Goss...........................................
103
Contending for the faith................................................................................
110
The soteriological significance of Acts 2:38...................................................
112
Repentance................................................................................................
114
Water baptism............................................................................................
115
Spirit baptism.............................................................................................
117
John 3:5 as hermeneutical principle............................................................
119
The forgiveness and remission debate..........................................................
126
The cross..................................................................................................
135
Holiness and salvation?..............................................................................
143
   
Chapter 4 Development of the Doctrine of Salvation...............................
148
'Full' salvation.............................................................................................
150
Water baptism 'for the remission of sins'.......................................................
155
Triumph of the 'water and Spirit' doctrine.......................................................
164
Affirmation of faith resolution........................................................................
182
Holiness: sine qua non................................................................................
182
A summary of Oneness soteriological development.......................................
187
   
Chapter 5 The Resolution: Defending Truth or the Voice of a Stranger?
200
Conception of a resolution............................................................................
201
Convocation at Salt Lake City, 1992..............................................................
208
Reactions to the resolution...........................................................................
221
Amending the resolution..............................................................................
230
Arguments against the resolution..................................................................
236
Problems in the preamble.............................................................................
241
Answering the objections............................................................................
242
Assessing the defence of the resolution........................................................
247
The James Kilgore connection......................................................................
251
Westberg against history: situating the resolution..........................................
259
Did the resolution change the United Pentecostal Church?.............................
261
Soteriology and the resolution.......................................................................
268
   
Chapter 6 Preaching and Practising Salvation........................................
276
Preaching in the United Pentecostal Church..................................................
277
Soteriological themes in Oneness Pentecostal preaching...............................
279
A comparative analysis of sermons...............................................................
286
Hymnody and ritual worship.........................................................................
299
Songs of the 'name'.....................................................................................
302
The doctrine of the new birth in song.............................................................
309
Water baptism in popular hymnody..............................................................
313
Music of the Holy Ghost..............................................................................
316
Other soteriological themes in worship and hymnody.....................................
322
Theologically incorrect songs.......................................................................
325
Doctrinal symbolism and its uses................................................................
326
   
Chapter 7 Christianity without the Cross?.................................................
329
   
Appendices  
Water and Spirit foundations in New Brunswick..............................................
345
Leadership in New Brunswick, Tennessee and the Pacific Northwest...............
346
   
Bibliographies
Printed sources...........................................................................................
348
Interviews...................................................................................................
372
Correspondence..........................................................................................
377
   
Index........................................................................................................
378
   
 
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