Davidson, V.J.D.2019-09-252019-09-252016-04-0420130118-8534http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/236555"In the past few decades Pentecostal theology has seen such a rise in academic endeavour that differing trends of thought are emerging with the conflict that is inevitable in any field of study. However, the deepening debates among members of the Pentecostal body appear to have turned Pentecostal thought into something of a ‘closed shop’ which is dismissed as somewhat irrelevant by the wider evangelical body. This dismissal continues despite the world-wide impact being made by outward-looking socially-relevant Pentecostals exemplified in Philip Jenkins’ epoch-making book that church growth challenge of Christianity in the Global South cannot be ignored.1 In Next Christendom, Jenkins announced that much of this growing church body showed Pentecostal characteristics.2 Yet perhaps the Pentecostal distinctives that he points to have become the barrier that restricts wider evangelical input into the discussion."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderIntimacyGodPentecostalism'sGood News GospeltheologyReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsChristian denominationsPentecostal, CharismaticBiblical TheologyArticle