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Who’s Your Daddy? In Search of the “Father” of Pentecostalism [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023
The concept of assigning a person the title of father of an ideology or view has its roots in ancient Greek and Roman society where some of the earliest of such references occur.
Eben de Jager
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New paradigms of pneumatological ecclesiology brought about by new prophetic churches within South African Pentecostalism

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
Pneumatological ecclesiology has caught the interest of many Pentecostal theologians, especially in the three main sub-traditions of Pentecostalism, that is, classical Pentecostalism (later CP), Pentecostal African Independent Churches (later PAIC) and ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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A Theological Evaluation of Pentecostalism and its Relevance for the Contemporary Church [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2023
The wave of spiritual dimensions in the Christian faith cannot be over-emphasised due to personal encounters with the Divine God and subject to people's understanding and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.
Elisha Oyedele Olabamiji
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An Indigenous Force of Pentecostalism in Africa: Indigenous Knowledge System Approach to Decolonization [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023
Pentecostalism in Africa has many expressions, types, and shadows contributing to the challenge of categorisations in the movement. There are some forms of Pentecostalism in Africa that resemble the American context in terms of theology and practice ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Charismatic experiences in the Congo Evangelistic Mission Churches: A review of some practices

In die Skriflig, 2022
Deliverance and divine healing, as well as the crucial historical aspect of the mission’s early proselytising and development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), constitute the major characteristics of Pentecostalism. As they form a historical
Mayuka G. Bondo, Marius Nel
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Zionist ‘syncretism’ in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa before the 1970s A comparative analysis

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2021
Despite the attested relationship between Zionism and Pentecostalism, the similarities between the pre-1970s black Pentecostalism in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of South Africa and Zionism are only now getting exposed.
Mofokeng, Thabang Richard
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Juan Sepulveda and the Understanding of the Syncretic Characteristics of Latin American Pentecostalism: The Case of Classical Pentecostalism in Guatemala

Religions, 2023
This article presents the case of Guatemalan Pentecostalism as a highly relevant expression of Latin American Pentecostalism that helps to clarify the debate about the syncretic nature of Pentecostalism.
Klaas Bom, Jonán Monroy-Soto
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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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Inter-Weaving of Local and Global Discourses: History of Early Pentecostals in Kerala

Religions, 2023
Even though the Pentecostal movement in Kerala, South India, is a unique expression of Global Christianity, it has not been given due recognition either in the history of Kerala Christianity or Global Pentecostalism.
Jose Abraham, George Oommen
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Pentecostals and the marginalised: A historical survey of the early Pentecostal movement’s predilection for the marginalised

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
Early Pentecostals came mostly from the ranks of the marginalised and disenfranchised, leading some researchers to describe the origin, attraction and expansion of Pentecostalism as some form of Social Deprivation theory.
Marius Nel
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