Tongues as Glossolalic Prayer – a Pentecostal Invention?: A Reply to Blosser and Sullivan

In Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination, Blosser and Sullivan argue that the glossolalic interpretation of tongues was an invention of the early Pentecostals aided by rationalistic higher critics in ignorance of the ecclesial tradition of tongues as xenolalia. The author here argue...

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Main Author: Gresham, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Journal of pentecostal theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 269-289
Further subjects:B Philip E. Blosser
B xenolalia
B Glossolalia
B Charles A. Sullivan
B Church History
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