Monday, 2 June 2008

Petersen

"Although the early participants in the movement were on the margins of society—”the loose dust of the earth for the wind to blow away,” as described not long ago by one Latin American theologian—the rippling waves of the Pentecostal experience have flowed into almost every sector of religious and secular society." 1(66)

o

"Italian Luigi Francescon, filled with the Spirit during a visit to the Azusa Street Mission, carried the Pentecostal message to the south of Brazil and Argentina. Swedes Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren, who introduced Pentecostalism into the northern states of Brazil, were brought into Pentecost through the Chicago center, an offspring of Azusa Street,"2 (66)

o

"Latin American Pentecostals, despite immense diversity, have at the core a supernatural worldview perspective that is codified through religious symbols and practices such as glossolalia and healings, supernatural interventions, participative worship, and expression in music." 3(67)

1D Petersen, ' The Azusa Street Mission and Latin American Pentecostalism', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30:2 (2006), 6667, 66.

2D Petersen, ' The Azusa Street Mission and Latin American Pentecostalism', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30:2 (2006), 6667, 66.

3D Petersen, ' The Azusa Street Mission and Latin American Pentecostalism', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30:2 (2006), 6667, 67.

No comments: