Glossolalia

Other characteristics of Pentecostalism are evangelism, spontaneity, direct communication with God and divine healing (Cooper 2011, Poloma and Green 2010). Additionally, Pentecostalism is defined by its mystical features of glossolalia (speaking in tongues), prophetic dreams, and being called or summoned by God to preach (Cooper 2011, Pitts 2012). Historically, these distinguishing factors have proved salient for Pentecostal women who desired to preach. For women utilized the religion’s mystical aspects, such as prophetic dreams and glossolalia – both considered accesses to the Holy Spirit – as proof that they have been “called” to preach (Alexander and Young 2009, Collier-Thomas 1997, Stephenson 2011). Thus, in Pentecostalism women claimed their own personal legitimate means to religious authority via the individualized aspect of communicating with God central to…

Over my 26 years of service in the Coast Guard I’ve had the opportunity to serve in many capacities: as a subordinate to service leaders, as a rescuer during search and rescue missions, as a law enforcement officer interdicting the smuggling of illegal narcotics or enforcing federal fisheries regulations and now as a lead engineer responsible for directing others in the maintenance and operation of equipment aboard a 225 feet buoy tender. As rewarding as many of these opportunities have been,…

Radical religion is very prominent in todays world, and in most cases it isn’t a well-liked branch of the religion itself. When talked about in the readings such as “Wheels in the Head” and from our discussions in class, we discuss about private and public schools but such can be flipped for religions. Jesus camp is an example of that and the documentary is exactly on that, a radical religious group. The documentary is focused on a evangelical christian church in the midwest that runs a camp for…

Introduction Guatemala has become the leading place for conducting researches on religions in Latin America. The predominant religions in Guatemala are Catholicism, Christianity and Mayan spirituality. However, during the colonial era, Catholicism was the main religion. There has been a tremendous growth in the Protestants community. According to the The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, “Pentecostals represent the most rapidly growing sector of Latin American Protestantism”. The other…

Pentecostalism is not a church in itself, but it is a movement that includes many different churches incorporating the gifts of the Holy Spirit as a normal part of the “Full Gospel”. The Pentacostal movement began around 1901, a time when church officials declared that the church had gotten way from the bible being understood in a literal sense and started believing the Word of God to be taken in a figurative sense, instead. Freeonlinebible.org states that upon its emerging in the early…

pneumatology lacks the direct speculative racial supremacism which orders much of his theology, he demonstrates coherence in his use of xenolalia as the pneumatic norm for racial control in rejecting Seymour and the glossolalic practices of the Azusa Street Mission. The first sections of the paper elaborate these workings, what might be called Parham’s Jim Crow pneumatology. Focusing on the way racial power is in the making of pneumatological doctrine has further ramifications. I attend in the…

In addition, the Spirit empowers people to do a mission and gives them prophetic speech. Menzies confirms that the relation between Spirit baptism and speaking in tongues is a question of systematic theology. Since none of the Jews that were baptized with the baptism of the Holy Spirit recognized that glossolalia was the first evidence to prove the baptism. The doctrine of evidential tongues is treated in the categories of biblical theology. Fee’s arguments challenged Pentecostals. However,…

charismatic movement as a fourth major strand of Christianity, standing with and influencing Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The Pentecostal movement is comprised of many denominations globally, including Assemblies of God, Church of God in Christ, the Church of God, and Pentecostal Holiness Church in the United States. Growing numerically from utter nothingness in 1900 to over half a billion today the influence of Pentecostalism within the greater landscape of…

When I was a young child, I went to a church in Southern Alabama, where my family lived. Within that church there were members of the congregation that were speaking words that was not English or any other language that I had heard before. At age five, I built up the courage to ask my grandma what they saying. She began to explain to me that they were speaking tongue. As an adult, I think that speaking in tongues is a gift given to older generational church members of the in the South. According…

James D G Dunn notes: “The epochal significance of Pentecost raises the whole course of salvation-history to a new plane ….In one sense, therefore, Pentecost can never be repeated - for the new age is here and cannot be ushered in again. But in another sense Pentecost, or rather the experience of Pentecost, can and must be repeated in the experience of all who would become Christians.” Dunn is effectively saying that in order to witness for Jesus Christ today, just as the disciples…