Pentecostalism and Ecumenism: Past, Present, and Future (Part 2 of 5) by Amos Yong
7 See Marlin Van Elderen, Introducing the World Council of Churches, rev. ed. (Geneva: Risk Book Series/WCC Publications, 1992), 4-6.
8 By this, I am thinking about the tendency to think of one’s doctrines simply in terms of “what the Bible says,” without recognizing that all biblical statements have to be interpreted—the latter resulting in the rampant denominationalism, factionalism, and sectarianism among conservative Protestants.
9 Gerald T. Sheppard was one of the first—and by no means the last—to have raised this question: see his “Pentecostalism and the Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism: Anatomy of an Uneasy Relationship,” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 6 (1984): 5-33.
10 DuPlessis was defrocked of his Assemblies of God credentials in 1962 for his ecumenical involvement. These were restored to him much later (in 1980) after history had confirmed his Pentecostal commitment and the value of his service to the wider causes of Christ. For DuPlessis’ own account, see his The Spirit Bade Me Go (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1970). More complete assessments can be found in Martin Robinson, “David du Plessis – A Promise Fulfilled,” in Jan A. B. Jongeneel, et al., eds. Pentecost, Mission and Ecumenism: Essays on Intercultural Theology, Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity 75 (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), 143-55, and idem, “To the Ends of the Earth: The Pilgrimage of an Ecumenical Pentecostal, David J. du Plessis (1905-1987)” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Birmingham, England, 1987) (this latter is usually available through the interlibrary loan services at your local library).
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