Jeg har lenget grublet over og studert den karismatiske bevegelsen, som p\u00e5 en m\u00e5te er sterk (spesielt i den tredje verden), samt har en viss kraft og inderlighet som vi kristne trenger, men som p\u00e5 den andre side skaper mange problemer, b\u00e5de teologisk pg praktisk (slik jeg selv ser det). I den siste av sine ekstra mega-trender, som jeg tok fram sist uke, skriver John Allen om dette:<\/p>\n
As several readers pointed out, any list of Catholic mega-trends that overlooks the astonishing growth of Pentecostal and Evangelical forms of Christianity worldwide cannot be complete. A recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life offers a comprehensive run-down of the numbers. According to the Pew research, today there are an estimated 500 million \u201crevivalists\u201d in the world, including members of stand-alone Pentecostal and Evangelical denominations as well as charismatics within established denominations. Revivalists now represent one-quarter of the total Christian population of two billion, compared with just 6 percent of the Christian total 30 years ago. The \u201cPentecostal wave\u201d is the world\u2019s fastest-growing religious movement, making especially strong inroads in the global South. At one level, this mega-trend means that Catholicism will be increasingly pushed in a charismatic direction, towards greater openness to the miraculous, the experience of healings and exorcisms, a more literal reading of Scripture, and more spontaneous styles of liturgical expression. In Brazil alone, the world\u2019s largest Catholic country, almost half of the population describes itself as \u201ccharismatic,\u201d with profound consequences for how the faith is taught, preached, and lived. At another level, the \u201cPentecostal wave\u201d also creates new competition for Catholicism, given that a hefty percentage of the revivalists are defectors from the Catholic church. To take one example, a study commissioned in the late 1990s by CELAM, the Latin American Catholic bishops\u2019 conference, found that 8,000 Latin Americans were deserting the Catholic church for Evangelical Protestantism every day. Among other things, this competition for souls promises to reshape the ecumenical conversation; in 1992, John Paul II used the phrase \u201cravenous wolves\u201d to refer to Pentecostal and Evangelical \u201csects\u201d in Latin America, a more aggressive language that hints at a shift from d\u00e9tente to apologetics in inter-Christian relations. In whatever fashion Catholicism chooses to approach the revivalists, including the growing number within its own fold, they are an unavoidable feature of the religious landscape. <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeg har lenget grublet over og studert den karismatiske bevegelsen, som p\u00e5 en m\u00e5te er sterk (spesielt i den tredje verden), samt har en viss kraft og inderlighet som vi kristne trenger, men som p\u00e5 den andre side skaper mange problemer, b\u00e5de teologisk pg praktisk (slik jeg selv ser det). 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