The Nazarene Primer

by James Blaine Chapman

Overview

Though obviously a book written specifically for the Nazarene church, it would certainly serve as a great study for anyone attending (or interested in) a holiness or Pentecostal / Charismatic church.


The Table of Contents are as follows:
THE NAZARENE CREED IN BRIEF
ARTICLES OF FAITH OF THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Chapter 1: WHAT WE BELIEVE AND WHY
Chapter 2: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT GOD AND WHY
Chapter 3: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT CREATION AND WHY
Chapter 4: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT MAN AND WHY
Chapter 5: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT REDEMPTION AND WHY
Chapter 6: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT SALVATION AND WHY
Chapter 7: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT THE CHURCH AND WHY
Chapter 8: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT CONDUCT AND WHY
Chapter 9: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT THE FUTURE AND WHY
Chapter 10: WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT MANY THINGS AND WHY

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151451949
Publisher:	Jawbone Digital
Publication date:	06/19/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	412 KB

About the Author

About the author (from Wikipedia):
James Blaine Chapman (1884-1947) was a minister, president of Arkansas Holiness and Peniel Colleges, editor of the Herald of Holiness, and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

Chapman was born 1884 in Yale, Illinois, the second son and fifth child in his family. The family moved to Oklahoma when he was fourteen years old, where he was converted to Christianity in 1899. Chapman's first academic instructor was his wife, a schoolteacher. When he took a pastorate at Vilonia, Arkansas in 1908, he enrolled at the Arkansas Holiness College there at age 24. After graduating in 1910, he left to pursue further study at Texas Holiness University in Peniel, Texas under president Roy T. Williams, where he received his bachelor's of divinity degree in 1913. Peniel College later awarded him an honorary doctor of divinity degree, in 1918, and Pasadena College did the same in 1927.

He began to preach at the age of sixteen, uniting with the World's Faith Missionary Association of Shenandoah, Iowa and then the Texas Holiness Association before forming his own Independent Holiness Church. He married Maud Frederick in 1903, at the church's first annual convention. His first pastorate was a church in Durant, in Indian Territory, which he organized in 1905 and would become part of the Holiness Church of Christ, but he also became pastor of a church in Pilot Point, Texas in 1907, for which he left Durant in 1908. That same year the Holiness Church of Christ joined the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, and Chapman moved again, this time to a pastorate at Vilonia, Arkansas. He left in 1911 after graduating from Arkansas Holiness College to pursue further education at Texas Holiness University. His only other pastorate would later be at Bethany, Oklahoma from 1918-1919.

Chapman would later become editor of the Herald of Holiness from 1921 to 1928 and was then elected general superintendent. He joined the Nazarene community of Quincy, Massachusetts in 1930, and served as general superintendent until his death in 1947.

A residential dorm on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University is named after Chapman.