Foolishness of God : A Linquist Looks at the Mystery of Tongues

472 Pages·2010·16.545 MB·English

by  Delbert Howard Tarr

gift of a gifted communicator—makes this book highly readable
to a wide range of people, both to the scholarly-inclined and to
the general public. The central thesis is to arrest attention to the
surprising ways God addresses His creation and challenge read­
ers to allow God to operate outside of one's own little box! Both
Pentecostals and non-Pentecostals will profit from a careful read­
ing of this book.
Dr. William Menzies
President-Emeritus, Asia Pacific Theological Seminary
Del Tarr's The Foolishness of God: a Communicologist looks at
Glossolalia is a new approach to the troubling questions sur­
rounding speaking in tongues. In this scholarly but polemic
work, Tarr looks at the critics and defenders of the current
Pentecostal emphasis on speaking in tongues while addressing
the subject with the eye of a professional in modern communi­
cations theory. I highly recommend this book to scholars and
general readers alike.
Vinson Synan
Professor of Church History
Dean Emeritus, School of Divinity, Regent-University
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The Foolishness of God is a fresh analysis of the nature and power
of speaking in tongues. Rejecting a rationalistic and stultifying
approach to Christian spirituality, Dr. Tarr calls for a return to the more
oral roots of early Christianity and a new sense of immediacy with
God in the practice of glossolalia. He charts a course of radical
dependence upon the Spirit and return to effective Spirit-empow­
ered witness.
Randy Hurst
Assemblies of Gad Commissioner of Evangelism
Former student of Dr. Del Tarr
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The Foolishness of God
Copyright ©2010 by Del Tan-
Published by The Access Group
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Preceeding Page: The traditional Upper Room in Jerusalem, believed by
some to be the site of the Last Supper. Seven weeks later at the celebration of
Pentecost, the apostles and other disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit.
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THE
FOOLISHNESS
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A Linguist Looks at the
Mystery of Tongues
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A n u n preced en ted
REVIVAL HAS SWEPT
THE WORLD IN THE LAST 100
YEARS. AS LATE AS THE MID­
TWENTIETH CENTURY—FIFTY
YEARS INTO THIS MOVE OF
COD—ALMOST NO ONE
ANTICIPATED IT WOULD BE
CALLED BY SOME THE "CENTURY
OF THE PENTECOSTALS." ATTHIS
WRITING AT LEAST 650 MILLION
LIVING BELIEVERS SUBSCRIBE TO
THIS DOCTRINAL POSITION OF
GLOSSOLALI A. "STATISTICIANS
TELL US THAT MORE THAN 1.5
BILLION PEOPLE ASSOCIATE
THEMSELVES WITH THIS GLOBAL
REVIVAL."1