Sentences with phrase «pentecostal tradition»

As an expression of their belief, they regularly offer opportunities on Wednesday night to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as in the Pentecostal tradition (where the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is considered a distinct experience from conversion).

Two articles by Gerald T. Sheppard provide greater detail: «Biblical Hermeneutics: The Academic Language of Evangelical Identity,» Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 32 (Winter I977), 81 - 94; «Word and Spirit: Scripture in the Pentecostal Tradition: Part One,» Agora: A Magazine of Opinion within the Assemblies of God [no longer published], I, No. 4 (Spring 1978), 4 - 22; and»... Part Two,» 2, No.

So far as any published «systematic theology» is concerned, a self - conscious effort to frame religious truth for the Pentecostal tradition within its own time and space something even remotely comparable to Donald Gelpi's work for Roman Catholic charismatics, not to mention Karl Barth's magisterial Church Dogmatics for the Reformed tradition - there simply is no such Pentecostal theology.

Biblical traditionalism and literalism are even more marked in the independent churches and in denominations rooted in the Pentecostal tradition, and similar currents are also found among Roman Catholics.

That said, I don't think there is anything implicit in Pentecostal tradition that necessitates anti-intellectualism per se.

And alternately, some of my worst experiences within Pentecostal tradition have been through people running amuck giving out «words.»

Here's the truthful answer: on one hand, the idea that God speaks dynamically through Christian community has been the thing that I've most cherished about my Pentecostal tradition.

And it is perhaps not a coincidence that many clergy in the fastest - growing denominations today — those in the Pentecostal tradition, for example — follow the same model, supplementing their ministries through other work.

Jonathan says he is the product of a life - long lover's quarrel with his native Pentecostal tradition, but ultimately loves his beautiful (if occasionally dysfunctional) eccliessial roots.

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

If I had to guess, I would guess that most of the spiritual abuse that you guys talk about occurs in the reformed and pentecostal traditions.

They were invited to join the newly formed National Association of Evangelicals, a group of church bodies composed of the fundamentalist, holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

They not only challenge the consensus of several decades but also suggest the historical conditioning of Holiness theology, raise questions about the varieties of theologies in the New Testament, and focus issues about the historical and theological relationships between Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

«I think there is a genuine embarrassment / horror when people in the West look at, for instance, some of the Pentecostal traditions, and I'm always very worried when people look at Asian or African religion and present it as a kind of syncretism, as a kind of survival of the pagan,» says Jenkins.

In both regions, however, there is a perhaps surprising and growing presence of evangelical and Pentecostal traditions.

Not exact matches

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

So whether you're Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian or Pentecostal, you can live the Anabaptist tradition.

As with the mystical tradition in general, the danger is that the Pentecostal mystical experience becomes a mere escape from the world rather than a preparation for a purposeful reinsertion into the world.

Significant changes are also occurring on the liturgical left (Quakers, Pentecostals and, especially, the free - church tradition), but it is difficult to generalize about such disparate groups.

In a collection of essays entitled The Sanctified Church, Zora Neale Hurston described the traditions of the African American holiness and Pentecostal churches as a «revitalizing element» in black music and religion.

My theological background was baptist then pentecostal then presbyterian then vineyard, and your position would be pretty much at home in all those traditions.

Unfettered by older Pentecostal history and traditions, these new sects attract experience - hungry charismatics who long for fresh spiritual encounters and who often mistrust institutional church ties.

He therefore relates openly to the charismatic tradition, participates in Vatican dialogues with the Pentecostals, and so forth.

We grew up in the Calvinistic reformed tradition, but undertook a journey through the Pentecostal and Charismatic worlds in our fifties.

By infusing her feminism with an identifiably Anglican set of concerns (patristics and ecclesiology, for example), Coakley points the way for black Baptist feminists or Pentecostal feminists to do work that elevates their own traditions.

Among Protestants, the influx of Pentecostals and evangelicals greatly outnumbers the adherents of mainline (or, better, «historical») denominational traditions.

When mainline churches proved inhospitable, «spirit - filled» believers often formed support networks within their traditions or drifted to independent charismatic and Pentecostal megachurches.

I think Pentecostals should understand the unique contours of their tradition and embrace the distinctions that go along with it.

Let's assume that I was to come to your church with no knowledge of Pentecostal church tradition.

In many ways, the Pentecostal movement (and the Wesleyan tradition that underwrites it) has more similarities to the Eastern church rather than the Western church in its Protestant or Catholic forms.

The Pentecostal movement in the early 1900's grew to about 50 million by 1950 and then it exploded with the Charismatic renewal coming into the mainline traditions in the 60's and 70's.

And of the rising influence of Pentecostal churches and the relative waning of churches in the historic confessional traditions?

In 1982, the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, following a long and arduous journey, published the document entitled «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry,» following a meeting in Lima, Peru, where representatives of «virtually all major church traditions,» including «Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, United, Disciples, Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal,» [7] reached theological convergence on various issues regarding baptism, eucharist and ministry.

Ecumenism is now in the hands of the evangelical and Pentecostal movement on the one hand and the Roman Catholic and Orthodox on the other, the polar opposites of the mainline folks, yet there is a measure of agreement on where and how the apostolic tradition is to be located and retrieved in the affirmations regarding the Trinity, or that Jesus Christ is true god and true man.

, Anglicans who exercise discipline, jolly Presbyterians with a reputation for levity, Pentecostals attuned to the Christian tradition, Baptists who acknowledge hierarchy, liturgical Bible churches.

Hispanic Americans are one of the fastest - growing demographics in evangelicalism, surging in Pentecostal and Assemblies of God traditions as well as among Southern Baptists, where a majority of new church plants are now non-white.

From Ella: My Pastoral Theology professor brought to the table a statistic that only 2 % of senior pastors in Pentecostal churches are women, even though the tradition has long allowed women to serve in high positions of ministry.

«After a century of intense theological activity, the churches in most places seem no closer to unity,» reports Alan Falconer, the director of the Faith and the Order Commission of the WCC to a major meeting in Tanzania.32 Konrad Raiser, the General Secretary of the WCC, has called on the main Christian traditions — the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal churches — to start preparations in the year 2000 for «a universal church council to reconcile the main issues, including the authority of the Pope.»

the tradition exists because PENTECOSTALS ARE IDIOTS.

Mormonism started in the same time and place as several American evangelical traditions like Pentecostal movements.

I had spent years in religious traditions such as Charismatic, Pentecostal and Vineyard that strongly believe God is speaking all the time, which is why prophecy is such a prevalent activity among these groups.

Unlike the historic churches, with their traditions, middle - class clientele and professional and bureaucratic standards, the Pentecostal field is, by comparison, young, fast - expanding, popular and sectarian.