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"We Represent a Definite Social Class": The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Huttenlocher T, Wilde M.
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The Bible as a human and fallible book? Contrasting Karl Barth and classical Pentecostal hermeneutical perspectives

In die Skriflig, 2022
Many Pentecostals share an affinity with Karl Barth’s theology of the Word along with a high view of the Bible that Protestants share. Like some Reformed theologians, they interpret his theology as follows: the Bible is not in any objective sense the ...
Marius Nel
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African Pentecostal spirituality as a mystical tradition: How regaining its roots could benefit Pentecostals

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Western academic theology do not succeed in accounting for the identity and faith culture of African Pentecostals for at least two reasons. In the first place, because as part of the Pentecostal movement it grew from the holiness, divine healing and ...
Marius Nel
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The role of the theology of retribution in the growth of Pentecostal-Charismatic churches in Africa

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016
This article considers the contribution of the theology of retribution to the growth of Pentecostal-charismatic churches in Africa. It argues that the beliefs and practices of African Pentecostal-charismatic churches uphold the theology of retribution ...
Jonathan Kangwa
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Pentecostal theology’s problem (Pt 1 2:2): Maši ke phepa ke le nosi, selabe se tla le motsaya kgamelo – a Setswana proverb

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Decolonisation of theology can be undertaken by engaging African proverbs and idioms. Pentecostalism, although the African Christian phenomenon is exploding, also needs to be decolonised in order to break itself of the western shackles of stereotyping ...
Kelebogile T. Resane
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Peculiarities in the Pentecostal tradition: Disciplinal and decolonial perspectives in a South African context

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is discussed here from disciplinal and decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored to show that Pentecostalism is part of ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Editorial

Journal for the Study of Religion, 2021
The Pentecostal movement has since its inception been a dynamic movement in which the theology, practice, and expressions of faith have shifted. This is primarily, but not solely, due to four central factors.
Maria Frahm-Arp
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Towards a biblical model of Pentecostal prophetic preaching

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016
The growth and diversity of Pentecostalism has produced questions regarding appropriate methods for Pentecostal preaching. Increasing educational levels among Pentecostal pastors have caused many of them to move to more mainline Protestant approaches to ...
Lee Roy Martin
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God-talk rhetoric and the abuse of Women in Neo-Pentecostalism: developing the Pentecostal theology of hearing from God [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
One of the tenets of neo-Pentecostalism is the claim of "hearing from God", particularly by neo-Pentecostal pastors and prophets in Africa. It is for this reason that even during the sermon presentation in Neo-Pentecostalism there is an element of “thus ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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A Pentecostal Perspective on Theological Implications of the Verbal Inspiration of Scripture

Dunamis: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani
The doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible is commonly affirmed in the Pentecostal tradition. For the most part, Pentecostal statements regarding Scripture have parroted the views Evangelicalism that focus attention on infallibility and inerrancy. This
Lee Roy Martin
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