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Christian Amnesia
Vondey, Wolfgang
Vondey, Wolfgang
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"In this context of global uncertainties one group has provided the world with elements of stability; stable growth, growing significance, significant change: the Pentecostal movement. But Pentecostalism is plagued by the same problems. As the 18th Pentecostal World Conference in Seoul (1998) already acknowledged, at the beginning of the twenty-first century the question, “Who in the world are Pentecostals?” has become one of the most significant issues. That this realization comes from Asia should not surprise us. A concept has developed at the end of the twentieth century that too easily divided the religious world of Pentecostals among others into North American Pentecostalism, European Pentecostalism, and Asian Pentecostalism. Yet, particularly in Asia, the expression of Pentecostalism can differ greatly from one country to another as the result of a different cultural and historical development of Pentecostal churches and leadership and the subsequent formulation of a congruent Pentecostal theology. The situation in Asia is paradigmatic for the worldwide situation of Pentecostalism. It expresses the most urgent question Pentecostals are facing today: What is the global identity of the Pentecostal movement?."
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2001
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