Pentecostal Spirituality

Steven J. Land

In this, the first volume of the Journal of Pentecostal Thenlogy Supplement Series, Steven Latid presents a fresh constructive and controversial interpretation and re-vision of the Pentecostal tradition. As Pentecostalism approaches its first centennial, Land argues (in agreement with Waleer Hollenweger) that the first ten years of the Pentecostal movement form the heart not the infancy of its spirituality, and emphasizes the crucial importance of its Wesleyan, Holiness and nineteenth-century revivalist restorationist roots

Land takes us through his study in four stages: (1) a discusion of the relationship between spirituality and theology; (2) a description and analysis of Pentecostal beliefs and practices; (3) a demonstration of how these beliefs and practices are integrated in Pentecostal affections, and (4) a trinitarian re-visioning of Pentecostal Spirituality, arguing that a passion for the kingdom of God is ultimately a passion for God.