Practicing the Passion of Pentecost

What is it about?

From the horizons of incarnation and Pentecost, Christian faith propagates God’s turn towards flesh. We can thus say that God turn to the flesh helps us appreciate the eschatological urgency historically evident within Pentecostal spirituality. A problem with Pentecostal “urgency” however, is its grassroots grounding to archaic schemes of “end-time” chronological speculation. So if we are to foster this “urgency” into the 21st century, we need to recast its source and expression within Pentecostal spirituality. Drawing inspiration from Acts 2.17 (“I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh”), this essay thus explores how this turn to the flesh, might aptly ground and generate eschatological fervour. Hence, how we might best practice the passion of Pentecost. Doing so however require appreciating how eschatological relates to sacramental practices within a Christian tradition, such as Pentecostalism. This essay addresses these problems by engaging philosopher Richard Kearney’s “anatheistic sacramentality.” It concludes with several implications, especially to how it challenges our response to the violent tragedy of world hunger.

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