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Mid City Printing Company (Chicago, IL)
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La pietra che gli edificatori hanno riprovata e' divenuta il capo del cantone. The stone that the builders rejected became the chief cornerstone. [Italian]

Chicago, IL : Mid City Printing Company, [1940s?]

64 p. ; 20 cm.

This book, which does not state its author, argues that eating certain sausages and other foods containing blood product is not sin and should be left to the discretion of believers. Most Italian and Italian-American Pentecostals of this era taught that Christians should abstain from eating food containing blood. This book may have been writen by Giuseppe Petrelli, a prolific author whose name often did not appear on his books, and who was the primary leader of the 'freedom party,' the school of thought within Italian-American Pentecostalism that left blood product consumption up to the discretion of believers.

Giuseppe Petrelli (1876-1957) was a lawyer in Italy when he converted to the Baptist faith in 1905. He immigrated to America later that year and in 1906 he became co-pastor of an Italian Baptist church in New York City. He was baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1915 and became a prominent Italian-American Pentecostal theologian and writer.

Blood--Religious aspects.
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Blood--Biblical teaching.
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12/08/2023