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A Survey of Some Tensions emerging in the Charismatic Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Robert H. Culpepper
Affiliation:
Dept. of TheologySeinan Gakuin UniversityFukuokaJapan

Extract

If the charismatic movement has its avid proponents, it also has its ardent opponents. These two tend to form polar extremes. In the conflict that emerges on various issues often the truth seems to lie not so much at either pole as where the Greek philosopher Aristotle sought it, in the golden mean between two extremes.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1977

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