Due to problems with allegedly
excessive emotionalism as well as difficulties in transmitting charisma to a second generation, the Assemblies of God faced some of the same problems that caused the early church of the first centuries to abandon «signs and wonders.»
Kurt Kauper's Diva Fictions are paintings of imaginary opera singers, invented characters of glamorous condescension and fashionable dazzle,
excessive theatricality and overt
emotionalism, transmitting a wide range of contemporary cultural realities.