Kuzmič, Peter (2012) Dilemmas and Challenges for Theology in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. In: Mission in Context: Explorations Inspired by J. Andrew Kirk. Routledge, London, pp. 217-228. ISBN 9781317095491
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This chapter considers the significance of Pentecostalism to world Christianity in the light of Andrew's concerns for a clear theology of mission. He sees mission not as an activity of the church among other activities, but mission as 'the essential being of the church', or 'what the Christian community is sent to do'. Pentecostalism is a mission movement par excellence; perhaps more than any other Christian movement in recent years. The chapter also considers five cardinal features of Pentecostalism and their missiological implications. The first feature of Pentecostal mission was the emphasis on premillennial eschatology. This has diminished in recent years, but early Pentecostals believed that their experience of Spirit baptism was a 'fire' that would spread all over the world, a last-days universal revival to precede the return of Jesus Christ. Second, Pentecostalism by all accounts has interracial and intercultural beginnings.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Missio Dei G Christian traditions/Denominations > Pentecostal |
| Divisions: | Balkan countries |
| Depositing User: | Users 3 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2019 15:14 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2019 15:14 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/1720 |
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