Chiquette ctd

"Faced with the disintegrating pressures of society, Pentecostal believers find in their faith and in their religious community the forms and models which respond to their need for individual integrity and participation in a loving community."¹ (32)

reaffirms the sacred nature of every human life² (32-33)

sets a positive value on human beings and the group³ (33)

"They now recognise themselves as valuable and important people who have God on their side and who are therefore capable of carrying out significant actions."⁴ (33)

Evangelism--> shows they have something worthwhile to share

Reject their situation as the work of the devil ⁵(33)

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"Pentecostalism opposes both [modernity and postmodernity] through the use of symbols and allegories, as methods of understanding and transforming this "reality"."⁶ (34)

replaces the rationalism and logic of modern secularism with a theological vision of life. "The Pentecostal universe is inhabited by the full and beneficient presence of God, through the Holy Spirit."⁷ (34)

both a re-enchantment and a exorcism.⁸ (34)

"When people criticize Pentecostalism for its 'rejection of the world' they should consider the experience of Pentecostal church members of this "world". The Pentecostals refuse a "world" that has excluded, marginalized and impoverished them and treated them as "non-persons."...they offer an alternative worlD..practising a sanctity...radical critique of modern consumer society and its dehumanizing vices." (⁹35)

1D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 32.

2 D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 32-33

3D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 33.

4D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 33.

5D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 33.

6D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 34

7D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 34.

8D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 34.

9D Chiquete, ' Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism', International Review of Mission 92:364 (2003), 29–39, 35.