The song of life: Affect attunement and pentecostal epistemology
This article explores Pentecostal epistemology through the interdisciplinary metaphor of affect attunement, drawing from music theory, developmental psychology, and philosophical theology. Using a hermeneutic and phenomenological approach, it examines early Pentecostal sources – Thomas Ball Barratt’...
| Subtitles: | Pentecostal Philosophy |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity
Year: 2025, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 148-166 |
| Further subjects: | B
tacit knowledge
B Music B Pentecostal epistemology B Epistemic virtues B Pentecostal spirituality B affect attunement |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This article explores Pentecostal epistemology through the interdisciplinary metaphor of affect attunement, drawing from music theory, developmental psychology, and philosophical theology. Using a hermeneutic and phenomenological approach, it examines early Pentecostal sources – Thomas Ball Barratt’s autobiography and the Maran Ata hymnbook – to investigate how Pentecostal spirituality is formed and expressed. Affect attunement, as theorized by Stein Bråten, is presented as central to Pentecostal ways of knowing – relationally and spiritually. Extending beyond mother-infant bonding, it describes Spirit-baptized experiences of divine-human resonance, mediated through music, prayer, and proto-speech. The article proposes that Pentecostal epistemology is affective, embodied, and communal, shaped by shared practices and a distinct narrative tone. It further suggests that Pentecostal knowledge integrates tacit, narrative, and systematic forms of understanding – formed through loving trust, informed by critical wisdom. Ultimately, the study argues that Pentecostal spirituality offers a hopeful epistemology shaped by an antiphony between present suffering and future redemption. |
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| ISSN: | 2769-1624 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/27691616.2025.2555580 |
