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The Alpha Program: Charismatic Evangelism for the Contemporary Age

The Alpha Program: Charismatic Evangelism for the Contemporary Age PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Volume 27, No. 1, Spring 2005 © 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden pp. 65–82 1 Damien Thompson, The Times , 2 February 1998. The Alpha Program: Charismatic Evangelism for the Contemporary Age Stephen Hunt Introduction British Christianity has stumbled across the big idea that has eluded it for most of its feeble Decade of Evangelism. It is not so much a big idea, as a small one brilliantly executed. Its popularity owes little to mission strate- gies or the thaumaturgical extravagances of the Toronto Blessing. Its milieu is mundane and domestic. 1 The extract above is the observation of a leading secular media reporter on religious affairs in the UK. It is a telling quote that puts the increas- ingly popular Alpha program in perspective—one that denotes its Charismatic roots, its innovatory strategies, and its mass appeal in Christian churches. A simple depiction of the Alpha program is that of a unique evange- lizing course designed specifically for the contemporary age, and one that advertises itself as “a ten week practical introduction to the Christian faith.” The founders of Alpha have set it out as a project constructed to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

The Alpha Program: Charismatic Evangelism for the Contemporary Age

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Brill
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© 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0272-0965
eISSN
1570-0747
DOI
10.1163/157007405774270329
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PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Volume 27, No. 1, Spring 2005 © 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden pp. 65–82 1 Damien Thompson, The Times , 2 February 1998. The Alpha Program: Charismatic Evangelism for the Contemporary Age Stephen Hunt Introduction British Christianity has stumbled across the big idea that has eluded it for most of its feeble Decade of Evangelism. It is not so much a big idea, as a small one brilliantly executed. Its popularity owes little to mission strate- gies or the thaumaturgical extravagances of the Toronto Blessing. Its milieu is mundane and domestic. 1 The extract above is the observation of a leading secular media reporter on religious affairs in the UK. It is a telling quote that puts the increas- ingly popular Alpha program in perspective—one that denotes its Charismatic roots, its innovatory strategies, and its mass appeal in Christian churches. A simple depiction of the Alpha program is that of a unique evange- lizing course designed specifically for the contemporary age, and one that advertises itself as “a ten week practical introduction to the Christian faith.” The founders of Alpha have set it out as a project constructed to

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