Pentecostalism as a Christian Mystical Tradition

Daniel Castelo, Elaine Heath

• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780802869562
• eBook ISBN: 9781467446440
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Denominazioni cristiane

Informed reassessment of Pentecostalism as a mystical tradition of the church universal Pentecostalism, says Daniel Castelo, is commonly framed as "evangelicalism with tongues" or dismissed as simply a revivalist movement. In this book Castelo argues that Pentecostalism is actually best understood as a Christian mystical tradition. Taking a theological approach to Pentecostalism, Castelo looks particularly at the movement's methodology and epistemology as he carefully distinguishes it from American evangelicalism. Castelo displays the continuity between Pentecostalism and ancient church tradition, creating a unified narrative of Pentecostalism and the mystical tradition of Christianity throughout history and today. Finally, he uses a test case to press the question of what the interactions between mystical theology and dogmatics could look like.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword by by Elaine A. Heath
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Challenge of Method
• 2. A Mystical Tradition?
• 3. The Epistemological Form of Evangelical Theology
• 4. Expanding the Pentecostal Understanding of Spirit-Baptism
• 5. The Spirit-Baptized Life
• Postscript
• Bibliography
• Index