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- Title
ECUMENISM FROM THE BOTTOM UP: A PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVE.
- Authors
Clifton, Shane
- Abstract
This essay describes Pentecostalism's emergence as a movement with an ecumenical spirit, emphasizing "spiritual unity" and developing a grassroots ecclesiology. Notwithstanding its ecumenical ideals, Pentecostal churches tended to be fissiparous and came to reject the formalities of the global ecumenical movement. Rather than lament a history of division, the essay recognizes that the independent nature of the movement facilitated its diversity and global mission. In this light a Pentecostal approach reconceives ecumenism not as the pursuit of one church but as a many-centered unity, one that transcends what is visible because it is not one thing but a myriad of things connecting and converging and moving freely in the Spirit.
- Subjects
PENTECOSTALISM &; Christian union; ECUMENICAL movement; PENTECOSTAL churches; CHURCH polity &; Christian union; WORLD Council of Churches; HOLY Spirit; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2012, Vol 47, Issue 4, p576
- ISSN
0022-0558
- Publication type
Essay