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A CONTEXTUAL MISSIOLOGY OF THE SPIR
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Abstract This thesis studies the id
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Acknowledgements My heart overflows
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Abbreviation AICC All India Christi
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3.2. Pentecostal Beginnings in Raja
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Pentecostali
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imported movement from south India,
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Indian Pentecostal missionaries. Th
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the ‘impressive success’ of Pen
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Pentecostalism, there has been a gr
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cultural nationalism, religious int
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Penthecosthu Sabhakal 30 fall into
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the product of Pentecostal theology
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All the above studies have certain
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the global culture of Charismatic C
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Missiology is the academic discipli
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has a major role in the theological
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Figure 2 Pentecostal Presence in Ra
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elievers. They refer to the example
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This study essentially uses the ind
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helps to ‘create the bonds of mut
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Jorgensen, participant observation
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approach them personally. Twenty Pe
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esearch is concentrated on a few di
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meetings on eight occasions at all
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time keeping the necessary distance
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Chapter 2 HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND ID
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2.1.1. A Socio-Religious Issue Iden
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India, and so he suggests that both
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indigenous nature of Christianity i
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definition and the rich diversity o
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Dalit Pentecostalism 37 and chiefly
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There is a well-established ancient
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As A.C. George rightly comments, th
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involved in forming small cells wit
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many local languages before Penteco
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Kerala. In one way or the other, th
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2.3. The Origin of Pentecostalism i
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mission in 1908, came to India with
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Indian Pentecostalism. Many non-Pen
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the ‘Pentecostal-like movements
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Indian revivals, without the influe
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elationships between dominant group
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missionaries. As McGee rightly obse
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participated in the 1908 revival an
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2.3.3.2. North India The Sialkot (P
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civilizations, be taken as coming f
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trembling and falling down on the g
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aptism, within weeks he had to modi
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and personal religion.’ 170 Even
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However, the most important and und
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There were trans-cultural elements
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Chapter 3 PENTECOSTALISM IN RAJASTH
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the Rajputs kingdoms is not general
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The CMS and the Canadian Presbyteri
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3.1.2. Contemporary Christianity Th
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involved in non-church planting eva
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has been ignored by writers, thus m
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tongues. The Jiwas were working in
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Although Peter Lal began his preach
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the state, such as Jodhpur, Jaipur,
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CNI church met in the medical store
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ecame known as the Banaswara trio a
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meetings conducted by Philip and hi
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Marubhoomiyile Apostalan (The Apost
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conscious of the significance of be
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particularly those from Kerala, hav
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They have also launched a Bible Tra
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Twelve out of the eighteen Pentecos
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available for everyone, and the inv
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of Christianity is responsible for
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validated by an accreditation agenc
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served as executive council members
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example shown by a student from Cha
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David J. du Plessis is true of Raja
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chanka kiya’ (the Spirit has heal
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example is the recent acknowledgeme
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them and disqualify them from being
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perspective.’ 120 Pentecostal ins
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One of the most significant feature
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there are changes in the outline of
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However, as the churches started gr
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Although persecution placed Penteco
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there took place unusual spiritual
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e headed for extinction.’ 145 Thr
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this issue has changed. In the late
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gatherings. However, today they hav
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expressed his concern that not all
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Chapter 4 PENTECOSTALISM AND THE RE
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expression, belief, faith and worsh
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statutory Commission was constitute
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attempts have been made to explore
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Furthermore, Pentecostals in Rajast
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minority and fundamental rights, se
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elonging to this land. The concept
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various dynamics related to the iss
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people will no longer be subject to
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enterprise in Asia.’ 43 Once the
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enterprises. The VHP had planned to
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occasions when they had to face opp
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claiming to be working for the glor
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and language.’ 67 Hindutva advoca
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time it gives approval to Hindutva
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As a direct influence of Hindutva i
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one, and is ‘historically variabl
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There are clear illustrations of th
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spiritual values, it is uniquely to
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crisis. 101 If this report is true,
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Janata Dal (BJD) in the coalition g
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disturbed the communal peace. There
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social work done by the Christians
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(purification). McKean observes tha
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against Christians are distributed
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Another chief strategy seems to be
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in the academic year 2001-2002. He
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oth the objects and reasons for the
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Pentecostals are always accused of
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4.6. Conclusion The above discussio
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north India. Indian Christians lack
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Financial poverty has been a major
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terms of its leadership structure i
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peculiar to Pentecostalism in Rajas
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greater presence of Christians. Man
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from larger organizations and that
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sign of holiness. However, later on
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a fair representation of local peop
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Although the term ‘globalization
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entitled ‘Pentecost: Internationa
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Coleman’s argument that the moder
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and Lewis Houston and Bill O’Lear
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esponse to different situations. Th
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they have made changes in their the
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achieved as the present world syste
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while they were distributing litera
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Jainism participated in the event.
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are a global community, because she
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‘reflection to orient it, to orde
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developments that shift the context
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the need for and responsibility of
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6.1.2. Contextual Missiology of the
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spiritual transformation,’ and so
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the global on the local is a realit
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states, ‘for Pentecostals, theolo
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It is argued here that the Holy Spi
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some consensus regarding the work o
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as ‘participation in the sending
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and magic. He was tormented by the
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of people from other faiths. Accord
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As seen above the stories of healin
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current study shows. To put it anot
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anticipates distinctive Indian Pent
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one among several ways to justify m
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this ‘as secondary destroys the w
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Second, in certain cases the Spirit
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important role in a culturally sens
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nations.’ 127 However, the Spirit
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would have been no opportunity for
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formation of a Pentecostal church i
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esult he changed his position. He a
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Jerusalem community, the local Pent
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y the context, then moved by the Sp
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Jonathan Ingleby discusses the sign
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languages, but use similar terminol
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Page 347 and 348: edress the balance of cultural expr
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Page 353 and 354: movement. It also showed that the c
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Page 363 and 364: Appendix 2 Research Representation
Page 365 and 366: Appendix 4 THE RAJASTHAN DHARMA SWA
Page 367 and 368: Appendix 5 Rajasthan Freedom of Rel
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Page 373 and 374: Appendix 9 South /North India Repre
Page 375 and 376: Appendix 11 Theological Education o
Page 377: Althouse, Peter. Spirit of the Last
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Page 383 and 384: Cox, Jeffrey. Imperial Fault Lines:
Page 385 and 386: Farquhar J.N., and G. Garitte. The
Page 387 and 388: Heaney, Robert S. ‘Conversion to
Page 389 and 390: Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christend
Page 391 and 392: ________ ‘The Debate on Conversio
Page 393 and 394: ________ Spirit-Shaped Mission: A H
Page 395 and 396: ________ ‘The Charismatic Renewal
Page 397 and 398: Miller, Basil. Praying Hyde: The St
Page 399 and 400: ________ The Flaming Tongue: The Im
Page 401 and 402: Poruthur, A. ‘Ground Realities of
Page 403 and 404: Sarkar, Tanika. Hindu Wife, Hindu N
Page 405 and 406: Special Correspondent. ‘An Openin
Page 407 and 408: ________ ‘Anyadesathu Krupayude T
Page 409 and 410: Whiteman, Darrell L. ‘Missionary
Page 411 and 412: Godwin, Colin Robert. ‘The Empowe
Page 413 and 414: Correspondent. ‘PM Responds to EU
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