Espinosa ctd

"The Latin American Catholic Charismatic movement traces its roots back to the United States and to Bogota, Colombia. The movement's four primary origins are: (1) the U.S.-based Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) in 1967, (2) a Bogota. Colombia-based Catholic Charismatic prayer group in 1967, (3) the U.S.-based Charisma in Missions Catholic Evangelization and Renewal Society in 1972, and (4) Latin American Catholics who defected to Pentecostalism and then later returned to Catholicism over the past century.'"¹ (272)

arrived in Brazil in 1971 ²(273) 35 million affiliates in 2000 ³(274)

"R. Andrew Chestnut has argued that the Catholic Charismatic movement has surpassed the liberation theology movement as the largest and most vibrant grass-roots Catholic movement in Latin America today" ⁴(274)

"Whether or not it (and other Protestant Pentecostal movements) will have long-term generational staying power is uncertain, although I am a little skeptical given the strict moralism and the unusually high level of involvement it requires of its participants."⁵ (275)

"They have reinvented and rearticulated their Charismatic beliefs in light of traditional Catholic teachings and encyclicals on spiritual renewal." ⁶

1G Espinosa ' The Pentecostal of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity', Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:2 (2004), 262–292, 272.

2G Espinosa ' The Pentecostal of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity', Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:2 (2004), 262–292, 273.

3G Espinosa ' The Pentecostal of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity', Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:2 (2004), 262–292, 274.

4G Espinosa ' The Pentecostal of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity', Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:2 (2004), 262–292, 274.

5G Espinosa ' The Pentecostal of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity', Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:2 (2004), 262–292, 275.

6G Espinosa ' The Pentecostal of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity', Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:2 (2004), 262–292, 275.