Alvarez

"Latin American Pentecostals are large, self-supporting, self-governed and self-multiplying churches." ¹(140)

"twenty-first century Pentecostals face problems of leadership, education, division and social alienation." ²(140)

refers to the significance of background knowledge acquired through Roman Catholicism³ (141)

refers to the acceptance of the supernatural ⁴(141)

For Pentecostals "the Catholic Church also represents, in their mind, an agent of alienation, oppression and compromise with the demonic powers of the world." ⁵(142)

refers to the importance of lay participation in the structures of the church ⁶(143)

"the problem of numerical growth without proper biblical teaching and discipleship. In some ares, they also tend to center too much power in authoritarian leaders." ⁷(145) danger of an "artificial spirituality"⁸ (145)

perceives the dangers of a growing secularism and materialism ⁹(146) danger of North American imports ¹⁰(146)

fears the danger of a new and triumphalist Pentecostal subculture ¹¹(146)

Escobar's reasons for growth in Latin America:

(1) Spiritual facts (2) Anthropological reasons--hunger for God (3) Sociological elements, providing identity, shelter, security and community (4) Pastoral methodology: lay participation

(5) Psychologican and cultural factors --freedom of worship, use of folk music ¹²(148)

refers to an estimate of 3000 Pentecostal Missionaries sent from Latin America ¹³(149)

links prosperity theology with the process of secularization ¹⁴(152-153)

1M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 140.

2M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 140.

3M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 141.

4M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 141.

5M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 142.

6M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 143.

7M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 145.

8M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 145.

9M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 146.

10M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 146.

11M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 146.

12M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 148.

13M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 149.

14M Alvarez, 'The South and the Latin American Paradigm of the Pentecostal Movement', Asia Journal of Pentecostal Studies 5:1 (2002), 135–153, 152–153.