Pentecostalism

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Pentecostalism

• Origins and Global Impact

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Apostolic Faith Mission
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Questions

• How does Pentecostalism typify American religion?
• How is it genuinely new and different?

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Beginning characteristics

• Focus on speaking in tongues
• Acts 2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they
  were all together in one place. And suddenly from
  heaven there came a sound like the rush of a
  violent wind, and it filled the entire house
  where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of
  fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on
  each of them. All of them were filled with the
  Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
  languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
• Restore Christians to model of early Christianity
• Spontaneous, emotional, physical expressions
• Renewal from dry, rote institutions
• Interracial in origins
• Women could lead, along with men

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Main features of African American spirituality
(Hollenweger, p 43)

• Oral liturgy
• Call and response
• Narrative theology and witness
• Max. participation in worship and service
• Visions and dreams in public worship
• Close relationship of body and mind
• Healing, tongues, being slain in the Spirit

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Race

• How influential in early Pentecostalism?
• How did this play out historically? Were people
  receptive?
• Importance in global context today?

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Women

• Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)
• Nationally prominent preacher, evangelist,
  healer a celebrity
• Married, had kids (divorced 1921)
• Founded Foursquare Gospel church
• 1st woman to preach a radio sermon (1920s)
• In ministries then and today

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