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Omahe, Chacha
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Chacha Omahe was a Kenyan Pentecostal evangelist, church leader, and Bible translator, who pioneered evangelistic work among the Kuria and the Maasai in Kenya. He has also been credited with starting the Ethiopian Pentecostal movement.Chacha belonged to the Kuria people, an ethnic group residing in the Kenya-Tanzania border region east of Lake Victoria. He was born in the Mara region of Tanzania in 1924 and moved to Kenya in the early 1930s. His father had pa…
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2021-07-16
Bonnke, Reinhard
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Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019) was a German Pentecostal evangelist, best-known for his huge open-air meetings in Africa. Bonnke was born on April 19, 1940 in Königsberg (Kaliningrad), as the fifth child of a Pentecostal church organist and her husband, who was an army officer. His childhood was shaped by the Second World War, the family’s dramatic escape from East Prussia, and four years in a Danish internment camp. Gradually, the family managed to rebuild their lives in Northern Germany, where Bonnke’s father pastored a Pentecostal congregation mainly for refugees.Bonnke’s autobiogr…
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2021-07-16
Church Unity
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[German Version] I. Church History – II. Theology – III. Ecumenics
I. Church History The unity of the church as a theological term does not appear explicitly in the New Testament; it emerged during the early history of the church, although the concept itself is a central NT theme. A further difficulty for a historical presentation is the nature of unity: is it ethical and theological (consensus in faith and conduct; cf. Eph 4:1–6) or juridical and structural (singularity)? The t…
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Religion Past and Present
Demons and Spirits
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[German Version] I. History of Religion (Ancient Near East and Antiquity) – II. Old Testament – III. New Testament – IV. Church History – V. Iconography – VI. Practical Theology – VII. Judaism – VIII. Islam
I. History of Religion (Ancient Near East and Antiquity) The term “demon” as used in European language groups derives from the Greek (δαίμων/
daímōn), where it initially also referred simply to gods (ϑεοί/
theoí; cf. Homer
Iliad 1.122) without either positive or negative connotations. The exclusively “negative” charge associated with demons doubtless represents a secondary development reflecting an understanding …
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Religion Past and Present
