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 Robert Franklin
Franklin is professor of Social Ethics at Emory University and a senior fellow at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study.
» A Pentecostal Upbringing (20:13, RA)
Franklin discusses the "high-voltage" religion of his youth, the progressive nature of Pentecostal movement, and the theological foundations of the Church of God in Christ. |
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 Margaret Poloma
Poloma is author of Main Street Mystics: The Toronto Blessing & Reviving Pentecostalism and professor emeritus at the University of Akron.
» The Toronto Revival (10:27, RA)
Poloma talks about her initial skepticism of the Toronto Blessing, the pandemonium going on during the revival, and tells us what it means.
» The Routinization of Religion (11:00, RA)
Poloma says that maintaining the charisma of worship is often difficult and often results in a routine form of worship. For Pentecostals, this is what drove followers to the movement. |
 Peter Berger
Berger is director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University and author of Many Globalizations.
» The Globalizing Force of Pentecostalism (11:00, RA)
Berger discusses the powerful nature of this religious phenomena in countries like Guatemala. Pentecostalism provides social and economic change for women and the poor in places around the world. |
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 James K.A. Smith
Smith is an associate professor and Director of the Seminars in Christian Scholarship Program at Calvin College.
» An Intellectual and Spiritual Faith (9:38, RA)
Smith describes his discovery of the intellectual rigor of the Christian Reformed tradition, and how he has found this to be holistic, especially as practiced together with Pentecostal spirituality. Christian Reformed theology provides deep resources for "thinking about the hard things," he says, and this draws many Evangelicals. In Charismatic tradition, he values a "radical openness" to mystery and surprise. |
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