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An Irresponsible Silence
Hollenweger, Walter J.
Hollenweger, Walter J.
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"I was trained in the most rigid critical scholarship of the universities of Zurich and Basel. My teachers were Hans Conzelmann, Gerhard Ebeling, Eduard Schweizer and Karl Barth. I knew also Rudolf Bultmann, Ernst Kasemann and Emil Brunner personally. I was raised in the oral, experience based spirituality of Swiss Pentecostalism. At that time we had a number of highly gifted lay preachers who used the Bible in order to understand what happened to them in the factory, when they were injured or lost their jobs, when they had no food for their children. This is probably the most important contribution of Pentecostalism, its oral culture, its oral homiletics. The interpenetration of critical scholarship with oral culture on the level of university studies has become a lifelong task for me. It materialized in the Centre for Black and White Christian Partnership in Birmingham where we educated black Pentecostal worker pastors in a university surrounding without destroying their natural spiritual gifts. It also shows in my research on Pentecostalism, and in dozens of Pentecostal postgraduate students."
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2004
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