A 21st-century Reformation: recovering the supernatural

Hwa Yung  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Oct 2010
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One of the big surprises of the 20th century was the dramatic growth of the churches in the non-Western world.

A bigger surprise was that, as Philip Jenkins asserts, those churches growing fastest are all strongly supernaturally oriented. ‘In this thought world, prophecy is an everyday reality, while faith-healing, exorcism, and dream-visions are all basic components of religious sensibility.’

This is true of African Initiated churches, Latin American Pentecostalism, house churches in China and India, plus numerous others.

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