The future of global Pentecostalism: demographic trends, geo-political realities, ideologies, and eschatological models
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This paper outlines ways of predicting the future of global Pentecostalism: making use of the current church growth and demographic trends, it extrapolates likely future growth of the movement; making use of possible shifts in geo-political realities, it locates Pentecostalism within the uncertain global landscape; assessing ideological models, it assesses the reliability of global societal developments; and reflecting on eschatological models, it draws attention to hermeneutical possibilities and potential pitfalls. Simple analysis of these different methods of predicting the future is employed to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
Keywords
- Eschatology, climate change, future, Pentecostalism, statistics
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 87-103 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 30 Jul 2020 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 2020 |