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- noun the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues
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His brand of evangelicalism, known as pentecostalism, featured "glossolalia" (speaking in tongues), ecstatic worship and divine healing.
Randall Balmer: Oral Roberts' Death Leaves Legacy Of Televangelism 2009
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He translated pentecostalism from the sweaty tents of the revival circuit to the cool professionalism of the television studio.
Randall Balmer: Oral Roberts' Death Leaves Legacy Of Televangelism 2009
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Yes, Roberts eventually toned down some of his tent-revival antics for television, but pentecostalism was undeniably a tougher sell than Graham's smooth, corporate-style evangelicalism.
Randall Balmer: Oral Roberts' Death Leaves Legacy Of Televangelism 2009
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He translated pentecostalism from the sweaty tents of the revival circuit to the cool professionalism of the television studio.
Randall Balmer: Oral Roberts' Death Leaves Legacy Of Televangelism 2009
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He translated pentecostalism from the sweaty tents of the revival circuit to the cool professionalism of the television studio.
Randall Balmer: Oral Roberts' Death Leaves Legacy Of Televangelism 2009
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Roberts migrated to television in 1955, just as pentecostalism itself was about to burst onto public consciousness.
Randall Balmer: Oral Roberts' Death Leaves Legacy Of Televangelism 2009
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Yet as I survey the sociological landscape of Catholicism, I can well understand why cradle Catholics who are not versed in ecclesiology, or indeed who are not well-catechized in any respect, would be seduced by pentecostalism and evangelicalism.
Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007
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Yet as I survey the sociological landscape of Catholicism, I can well understand why cradle Catholics who are not versed in ecclesiology, or indeed who are not well-catechized in any respect, would be seduced by pentecostalism and evangelicalism.
The Pope in Brazil Mike L 2007
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Kristof thinks that pentecostalism is part of the reason that the coming pope will allow married priests: "Faced with . . . [the] choice worldwide [between decline and transformation], losing ground to Pentecostals, the next pope will be forced to choose transformation."
Celibacy Not Required Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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Their statement of faith is standard pentecostalism, including the belief in immersion baptism, the importance of spiritual gifts like tongues, and the existence of hell.
Christ Chapel and evangelical gay Christians at Hugo Schwyzer 2004
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