CT: "A New Kind of Pentecostal"

Moltmann

A couple of quotes from an article on Christianity Today's website today:

"Jurgen Moltmann, professor emeritus at the University of Tubingen, Germany, and widely regarded as the leading living theologian of pneumatology, says, 'Theologically, the Pentecostal movement has come of age!'"

"'During the past two decades or so, Pentecostal theology has emerged and is about to establish its place among the other traditions,' adds Veli-Matti Karkkainen, professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary."

The article is entitled, "A New Kind of Pentecostal," and is written by Robert C. Crosby, professor of practical theology at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida.

[UPDATE 9/15 - I read this week of an interesting --- even miraculous --- encounter between Moltmann and Pastor David Yonggi Cho's church (Yoido Full Gospel in Seoul, Korea). Mark Shaw reports in his book, Global Awakening: How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution, that "... theologian Jurgen Moltmann stood in the pulpit of Cho's full gospel church to declare that he had been healed under the ministry of Cho ...." (p. 47). The footnote for that item refers the reader to an article, "The Blessing of Hope: The Theology of Hope and the Full Gospel of Life" in the Journal of Pentecostal Theology 13 (2005): 147-161.]