Like “pearls on a string,” following are quotes from several books I’ve read or am reading over the past several days: “Aimee Semple McPherson compared the early movement ‘to a pot of stew boiling away over the cookfire of the Spirit, when considering how the different theological visions behind the movement were at work to form something new. This is a positive image of people gathered around a fire, each contributing to the theological conversation (the stew) in a way that produces something good and wholesome. It is an image of a hospitable theology in which much is shared and brought together to form new thinking and practice, as the Spirit enables.” Andy. Lord, The Networked Church: A Pentecostal Ecclesiology Shaped by Mission (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012), p. 6. “Whatever Pentecostal stories are told over the course of the movement’s second century, they must surely include the ones from the underside of history, from the global South, from the borderlands.” Daniel Ramírez, “Divino Compañero Del Comino: The Stakes for Latino Pentecostal Theology in Pentecostalism’ Second Century,” in Harold D. Hunter and Neil Ormerod, The Many Faces of Global Pentecostalism (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2013), p. 216. “Pentecostal mission is characterized by the ‘many tongues’ of the empowering of the Holy Spirit.” Michael Wilkinson, “The ‘Many Tongues’ of Global Pentecostalism,” in Global Pentecostal Movements: Migration, Mission, and Public Religion, ed. Michael Wilkinson (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012), p. 8. “If God can use Balaam’s ass to help him see the error of his ways (Num. 22), and if, as I have argued, God can use Marx, Nietzche, and Freud to be prophetic voices to Christendom, then surely God can use Christians from other traditions to help us better hear, understand, and embody Scripture— if we have the humility to let them, to listen and to learn from them.” Merold Westpal, Whose Community? Which Interpretation? Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009), p. 140. “Pentecostals are facing the same twin challenges faced by older traditions: ressourcement (a return to the sources) and aggiormamento (bring up to date), the two key processes behind Vatican II.” “Much of what Pentecostals need to recover in ecclesiology can be found within the larger Christian tradition, especially Orthodoxy.” Simon Chan. Pentecostal Ecclesiology: An Essay on the Development of Doctrine. JPTS, 38 (Dorset, UK: Deo Publishing, 2011), pp. 1-2, 8.
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