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The Newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches: The Shape of Future Christianity in Africa?

The Newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches: The Shape of Future Christianity in Africa? The Newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches: The Shape of Future Christianity in Africa? Allan H. Anderson The New Factor in African Christianity The role of a new and rapidly growing form of African Christianity, 1 here called “newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches” (NPCs), is increasingly being recognized. 2 This movement, which has only emerged since 1970, is fast becoming one of the most signiŽ cant expressions of Christianity on the continent, especially in Africa’s cities. We can’t under- stand African Christianity today without also understanding this latest movement of revival and renewal. Ogbu Kalu calls it the “third response” to white cultural domination and power in the church, the former two responses being Ethiopianism and the Aladura/Zionist churches. 3 I would argue that this newer Pentecostal and Charismatic movement is not fun- damentally different from the Holy Spirit movements and the so-called “prophet-healing” and “spiritual churches” that preceded it in the Afri- can Initiated Churches (AICs), 4 but it is a continuation of them in a very different context. The older “prophet-healing” AICs, the “classical” Pente- costals, and the newer Pentecostal churches have all responded to the existential needs of the African worldview. They have all offered a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

The Newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches: The Shape of Future Christianity in Africa?

Pneuma , Volume 24 (2): 167 – Jan 1, 2002

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© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/15700740260388027
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The Newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches: The Shape of Future Christianity in Africa? Allan H. Anderson The New Factor in African Christianity The role of a new and rapidly growing form of African Christianity, 1 here called “newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches” (NPCs), is increasingly being recognized. 2 This movement, which has only emerged since 1970, is fast becoming one of the most signiŽ cant expressions of Christianity on the continent, especially in Africa’s cities. We can’t under- stand African Christianity today without also understanding this latest movement of revival and renewal. Ogbu Kalu calls it the “third response” to white cultural domination and power in the church, the former two responses being Ethiopianism and the Aladura/Zionist churches. 3 I would argue that this newer Pentecostal and Charismatic movement is not fun- damentally different from the Holy Spirit movements and the so-called “prophet-healing” and “spiritual churches” that preceded it in the Afri- can Initiated Churches (AICs), 4 but it is a continuation of them in a very different context. The older “prophet-healing” AICs, the “classical” Pente- costals, and the newer Pentecostal churches have all responded to the existential needs of the African worldview. They have all offered a

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