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- Title
'ln My Flesh I Shall See God': (Re)Imagining Parousia, Last Judgment, and Visio Dei.
- Authors
Green, Chris E.W.
- Abstract
Arguably, early Pentecostalislm was more than anything a 'Latter Rain' movement, an end-time 'missionary fellowship' animated by a passion for Christ's parousia and the promised Kingdom's final inbreaking. Pentecostals from the beginning have been concerned, if not in fact obsessed, with 'last things,' and especially with biblical prophecies of Christ's 'return. At times this apocalyptic fervour and fascination with eschatological doctrines veered into extremes. But the fact remains that early Pentecostal apocalypticism served as a prophetic alternative to dominant modes of Protestant spirituality that had effectively secularized eschatology, reducing the gospel to social and existentialist ideologies. Hence, despite still-popular caricatures of the movement, early Pentecostalism is not best described as otherworldly and sectarian. The mothers and fathers of the movemnent - at least a good number of them - were gripped by the conviction that 'God brings the future down to the present tense, and this was the energizing and orienting conviction of their missional and pastoral efforts.
- Subjects
SECOND Advent; JESUS Christ; ESCHATOLOGY; JUDGMENT Day; END of the world
- Publication
JEPTA: Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association, 2013, Vol 33, Issue 2, p176
- ISSN
1812-4461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/jep.2013.33.2.006