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Power Evangelism in a Protestant Context? Reflections after a Workshop in Samosir/Indonesia
Author(s) -
W Claudia
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international review of mission
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.118
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1758-6631
pISSN - 0020-8582
DOI - 10.1111/irom.12214
Subject(s) - evangelism , protestantism , context (archaeology) , blessing , power (physics) , sociology , christianization , syncretism (linguistics) , religious studies , theology , philosophy , christianity , history , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , linguistics
This article discusses how the neo‐Pentecostal concept of power evangelism, read from a liberation perspective, might be useful to contextualize evangelism in the Toba Batak region of Samosir. In a situation where evangelistic preaching follows an evangelical forensic paradigm but Christians turn to traditional religious rituals for blessing, healing, and protection, a new approach is needed. Preaching and liturgies informed by a power paradigm might resolve the problem of syncretism, but important theological questions need to be clarified.