The Dangers of Pentecostal Practice: On the Formative and Deformative Potential of Speaking in Tongues
This article reevaluates the formative power of speaking in tongues through dialogue with Lauren Winner’s The Dangers of Christian Practice. It uses Winner’s notion of ‘characteristic damage’, her idea that the characteristic good of a practice can be damaged in unique ways, to engage previous schol...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Journal of pentecostal theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 59-72 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FA Theology KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
xenolalia
B postliberal B Glossolalia B deformation B Formation |
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| Summary: | This article reevaluates the formative power of speaking in tongues through dialogue with Lauren Winner’s The Dangers of Christian Practice. It uses Winner’s notion of ‘characteristic damage’, her idea that the characteristic good of a practice can be damaged in unique ways, to engage previous scholarly accounts that have argued for the formative and deformative potential of glossolalia and xenolalia. By juxtaposing these accounts with one another, in light of Winner’s framework, this article seeks to enrich the theological perspective on tongues. Ultimately, its examination of these conflicting accounts yields a constructive synthesis that posits entanglement as the characteristic good of speaking in tongues, both as glossolalia and xenolalia. This final synthesis enables an account of God’s gifts that is honest about both the goodness of the gift and the brokenness of the recipient. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5251 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of pentecostal theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455251-32010002 |