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grantcart

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1. I believe that this guy has touched on something that is going to have a profound impact on

Reply to rug (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:46 PM

Apr 2013

churches in the future; South American Pentecostalism.

It is so popular and drawing so many from traditional Catholic churches that the Catholic church now has organized outreach and numbers more than 100 million.

Eventually the Catholics are going to nominate a Pope from their largest base, Latin America.

In Protestantism the 'war' has already been won in LA by conservative and Pentecostalism.

The majority of Mormons are Spanish speakers

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2004-06-05/news/0406040432_1_mormon-church-congregations-church-of-jesus

Christianity in Latin America tends to be more emotional and contain anti-intellectual strains.

It makes for a Church that will strain against the scholarship of the German/American leadership which has formed the intellectual basis of scholarship for Biblical studies and the training of clergy.

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Radical Theology: The New “White” Religion? [View all] rug Apr 2013 OP

I believe that this guy has touched on something that is going to have a profound impact on grantcart Apr 2013 #1

There is something to be said for having a different than Eurocentric take on theology. rug Apr 2013 #2

Absolutely grantcart Apr 2013 #3

My sense of Pentecostalism is that it's light on theology but heavy on experience. rug Apr 2013 #4

Pentecostalism isn't just light on theology it is a virulent form of anti-intellectualism grantcart Apr 2013 #11

"Eventually the Catholics are going to nominate a Pope from their largest base, Latin America." Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2013 #5

Of course you are right and if asked I would have correctly answered what country he is from but grantcart Apr 2013 #12

The current pope is from Latin America! He was born there, and raised there. nt MADem Apr 2013 #9

Absolutely correct, I wonder why I missed that. Maybe he still seems European. grantcart Apr 2013 #10

Sometimes we forget that South America, like North America, has an "immigrant culture" too. MADem Apr 2013 #13

Not an excuse for me. grantcart Apr 2013 #14

From what I've seen in Mexco and South Texas, okasha Apr 2013 #6

The 3rd chapter of the book he references as "radical theology" opens with a Wallace Stevens poem. Jim__ Apr 2013 #7

Do most religious white people care the slightest bit about radical theology? kwassa Apr 2013 #8