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Editor, Library, Oklahoma, Andreas
South
- University,
- Lewis,
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His
Life
Donald Dean
- and
- Hans Nielsen
Aarflot,
House, 1979).
Hauge:
Reviewed
Message Smeeton.
(Minneapolis:Augsburg by
Publishing
- is a cistern from which one
- This book
- draw
- of
- kinds
- might
- many
- descent will find
- but all are
- The
- os
- water,
- portable.
thirst person
- his
- for
Norwegian
- to
- his
- material
- roots. The historian of
- satisfy
- spiritual
- will
- often-needed balance to
- taste an
- the
rationalistic theology that superficial judgment
Lutheranism will was only
relish this with pneumatological century orthodoxy. of the eighteenth
The advocate activist of of
- lay leadership
- practical paradigm
- the
- will
- interests
- and,
- course,
- lay
- person
- from the creative
- and
- drink
- life of this
- deeply
- thinking
- courageous
preacher-theologian.
- Hans Nielsen
- is not
revivalist-not known
- the
- in
pejorative outside
Scandisense
- Hauge
- widely
- Although
- most
- he was the
navia,
of an important
- the truer sense of
- but in
- one who
- evangelist,
- provokes spiritual
- the
- of
- dated his
- which
- Aarflot
- history
- Christianity.
awakenings-in commitment
- Norwegian
- Hauge
- to
- to
- a
- estatic
- ministry
- experience
profound,
- in
- "had the character of a
- the
- as was known later
- synthesized
- training, Hauge
baptism
22).
- suggests
- Spirit
- movement"
- in the Pentecostal
(p.
without formal
- theological
- Although
- with
- Lutheranism
the liberation of the was influenced
- and
- limited accommoda-
pietistic practice
Enlightenment. Enlightenment liturgical
- tions to
- if
- Even
- one
- doubts that
- the
- to the extent indicated
- by
- by
- Hauge
the combined fire.
- tenets of orthodox
- with
Aarflot,
the flame
- definitely
- Hauge
- theology
of spiritual
position
200 of almost
- years
- ago anticipates many parallels
- Hauge's
- renewal.
- to
- life
to the twentieth without rending infiltrate century
his
Desiring chose to spiritual
- remain
- to structures
- church,
- Hauge
- loyal
- restricted his
- sometimes with
- which
- efforts,
of the twentieth
- hostility.
- open
- constantly
- the
- one
- if he
Enlightenof many
From
- century,
- might question
- perspective
to
- made the best decision or if he surrendered too much
- the
- so
- which
- awakened
- must
- his
- but one
men. admire
- zeal,
- ment,
Hauge's country
- of
- and former
- Oslo
- of church
deserves to contemporary
Andreas
Aarflot,
Independent
- bishop
- professor
- at
- at The
- Oslo,
- Seminary
and
- history
- Theological
biography
- for
- thanks
theology presenting Hauge's Christianity. charismatic
- 61-
- tr.
- M.
Rene Darton, University
- Catholic
- O'Connell
- Laurentin,
Longman,
- Pentecostalism,
- (London:
- 239
- and
- Reviewed Paul Elbert
pp. by
Todd, King's
1977), College.
(postgraduate), of London
chez les and
Pentecotisme this
- Catholiques (also
- Originally
in copyrighted by
- of
- Professor
- Laurentin
- 1977),
- history
- critique by
- Doubleday
of
- to
- the
- document the
- world
- Catholic
- University
- Angers attempts
sector of the
Neo-Pentecostalism in one hundred of the that million movement
- renewal
- Catholic
Catholic participants
- movement.
- Laurentin
between
1975.
May
Fathers progress estimates and 4 This had somewhere countries as of
Ghost
2
- is
- from its birth
- traced
- at
among Holy
- in
- in
the wide-
Holy
1967,
- University
- January
no
- Pittsburgh
- noting
human founder-"the
Duquesne
- modest belief that there was
- and
is As an spread Spirit
- the
- founder"
- only
- (185).
- of its
- Laurentin cites attendance
of Notre Dame: 90 in for
- example
- growth
University with figures the at
1974. From contact
- in
- annual
- 196 7 , 30,000
- meetings
in the
- the movement
- United States subse-
- in
- occurred
- Canada and
- America
- South
- and
the quent then apparently many growth
- to
- other countries. For
- Laurentin
- example,
- places
- spread
- of 1971
- and records that since
1973
- in
- at the end
France beginnings
every
- in France has one or more
- reviewer
(This
- city
- important
has learned from a reliable groups.
- that
- source he
Poland.)
- not
- disclose
- can
- there are now
- in
- at
least 60 fellowships
- Pentecostalism
- was influenced
of
- at
- Since Catholic
("inspired,"
Classical
20) the literature and is careful to review the its outset Laurentin
Pentecostalism, forerunner. and once defends E. S. Williams from critics testimony by of its Protestant history
He is
- eympathetic
- (36).
- in
- his
- is on
- recent
- stress
However,
- throughout
- critiquing
objectivity the tension between influence and the developments
- as a
- the
- which he does with
- Catholic
sector, participating
the enthusiestablished remained faithful to the church. It is observer. life of Protestant the movement has and
- (non-charismatic)
- Despite
- astic
- tradi-
evangelical
tion, not by welcomes all. large
Dangers sees as
- it
- are neutralized
the most communal dis-
- elite,
- by
- which
- trait of
- Laurentin
- characteristic
cernment, being the movement as a whole. Such tensions then are resolvable by revising and with the between institution in the believers,
teaching relationship
"the specifically of by by once
- Christ,
- relationship
- keeping
revising putting again
- the
- the
- once
- on
- again
- people, equating power
emphasis service,
- the
- and
- charisms"
- with
- (146).
- rehabilitating
- from within
- are mixed as are the
- various
- Reactions
- Catholicism
- in
- the
- strands
but Laurentin and sacramental
Spirit
out regarding baptism exegetical
- water
- to
- is wise
- that the church
- was
in point
Laurentin the level baptism,
- of such
- believes
baptism aware the anyway. need at rightly of the problems
- a
- meets
- common
- "at a
people
- pastoral
- Spirit
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