{"id":21074,"date":"2019-01-26T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=21074"},"modified":"2019-01-26T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:46:03","slug":"global-evangelicalism-and-global-pentecostalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/global-evangelicalism-and-global-pentecostalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Evangelicalism and Global Pentecostalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Lewis\u2019 book Global Evangelicalism: Theology History and Cultural in Regional <\/em>Perspective advances the conversation about evangelicalism. Both the definition of evangelicalism and the global perspective of this ideology are a significant contribution to this topic beyond what Bebbington brings up in his 2015 Evangelicalism in Modern Britain. One of the most important aspects for people to understand is that evangelicalism is truly a global ideology. Many in America are already saying it without even knowing how evangelical means something different than just Christian. But Evangelicalism has become predominant in more than just the North America and Europe, but also in the global south. Personally speaking, of the 10 or so countries I’ve been to, most of which I\u2019ve attended a Pentecostal church during my visit, they have had a lot of common threads. While previously I attributed most of this to all of us simply just being Christian, there were actually more commonalities at play here because of the evangelical and Pentecostal crossovers. Even as we cross country borders, these similar theological frames help more be translated easily.<\/p>\n

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One of the highlights of this book for me was covering the review of Bebbington\u2019s work and the four pillars of evangelicalism.[1]<\/a> Remembering reading about the four pillars for the first time and the feeling of gaining a new understanding to an old overused word. Now reading a book which referenced and progressed Bebbington’s ideas was a neat moment for me to be able to proceed. In my original post about Bebbington\u2019s work, I compared evangelicals to Pentecostalism. My major point of comparison was comparing the major pillars of each movement and pointing out that many scholars consider these two different entities. In this blog from last year I wrote, \u201cInterestingly enough, Jame K.A. White writes in this his book\u00a0Thinking in Tongues<\/em>\u00a0about the five tenets of Pentecostalism are White\u2019s list consisted of Radical Openness, Enchanted Theology, a non-dualistic affirmation, an effective epistemology, and an eschatological orientation.<\/a>[1]<\/a>\u00a0I bring this up to point to the fact that some theologians, such as Smith, actually categorize Pentecostalism in a different category as evangelicalism.\u201d[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

But the most important connection with me from Lewis came from Chapters one about and. In Chapter one of Lewis\u2019 work he discussed how Pentecostals, fundamentalists, and charismatics add different ingredients to typical evangelicalism. As I will move forward and discuss Pentecostals and share if this distinction adds anything to my research or to the conversation for our cohort. As I write this I wonder if I will hear about Fundamentalists or charismatics from others in our cohort, since we come from a diverse background theologically in this group.<\/p>\n

Lewis, not being a Pentecostal himself, shares a good outsiders definition and outsides perspective on what Pentecostals are to the rest of the world. Lewis describes pentecostalism as a sort additional seasoning to add on top of Lewis describes Pentecostals who also do other things. Lewis states that Pentecostals are just evangelical believes who \u201cplaced fresh stress on the active work of the Holy Spirit and on the restoration of the direct experience of God commonly reported in the New Testament.\u201d[3]<\/a> Lewis does mention classical Pentecostalism and that is an important distinction of those who attested to the core doctrine of Pentecost and specifically s\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>ought to speak of tongues. There are still classical Pentecostals today, but this is the first wave of the Pentecostal revival that happened at the turn of the 20th<\/sup> century with Azusa street. Today there has already been the 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> wave of Pentecostal revivals and most Pentecostals\/charismatic (often used synonymously) are third wavers today (see charts).[4]<\/a> This means they do not adhere to a typically Pentecostal denomionation with core Pentecostal doctrine, but their evangelical experience is still spiced with the eagerly desiring spiritual gifts and their faith experience is peppered with the manifestations of the Holy Spirit and usage of the gifts. Although many use Pentecostal and charismatic synonymously, the charismatic is what Lewis calls the non-pentecostal who still emphasis the Spirit and the move of the Spirit as a Pentecostal does.<\/p>\n

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Lewis was not exagreated when he said Pentecostal beliesfs and pracites hvee spread like wildfire. Harvey Cox, Harvard professor says of Spirit Empowered Christianity, is \u201cthe fastest growing Christian movement on earth.\u201d [5]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Reading this book and being frustrating at my inability to engage as deeply in it as I wanted to, I am convicted to circle back around to this after graduation. By perhaps even more so, I am convicted to study my own denomation but from a more academic and global lens. Much of what I have learned from pentecostalism has come from North American voices, but being that the center of pentecostlaism and perhaps all Christian thought has now moved to the global south, I need a better understanding of global pentecostlaism and it\u2019s needed, and that perhaps is my next action point that this program has revealed to me.<\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bebbington, David W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: a History from the 1730s to the 1980s<\/em>. Routledge, 2015.<\/p>\n

Keyes, Dr. Sam. \u201cHow (Not) To Be Secular – a Review.\u201d Bethinking.org, Last modified July 19, 2017. https:\/\/www.bethinking.org\/culture\/how-not-to-be-secular-review.<\/p>\n

Lewis, Donald M., and Richard V. Pierard. Global Evangelicalism: Theology, History and Culture in Regional Perspective<\/em>. IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

Smith, James K. A. Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy<\/em>. William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2010.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Bebbington, David W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: a History from the 1730s to the 1980s<\/em>. Routledge, 2015.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Smith, James K. A. Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy<\/em>. William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2010.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Lewis, Donald M., and Richard V. Pierard. Global Evangelicalism: Theology, History and Culture in Regional Perspective<\/em>. IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2014. 22.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> David Moore Lecture, Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Spring 2015.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Harvey Cox Quote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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