Pentecostalism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===1960–present=== [[File:Dmanisi Pentecostal Church 2022.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|[[Dmanisi]] Pentecostal Church in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]]] [[File:Свјетлопис богомоље пентекосталне вјерске заједнице Слободна црква Београд.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Pentecostal Church in [[Belgrad]]e, [[Serbia]].]] Before the 1960s, most non-Pentecostal Christians who experienced the Pentecostal baptism in the Holy Spirit typically kept their experience a private matter or joined a Pentecostal church afterward.<ref name="NIDPCMCharisMovementBefore1960">''The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements'', s.v. "Charismatic Movement: A. Earliest Stirrings (Before 1960)".</ref> The 1960s saw a new pattern develop where large numbers of Spirit baptized Christians from [[Mainline (Protestant)|mainline churches]] in the US, Europe, and other parts of the world chose to remain and work for spiritual renewal within their traditional churches. This initially became known as New or Neo-Pentecostalism (in contrast to the older classical Pentecostalism) but eventually became known as the [[Charismatic Movement]].<ref name="NIDPCMCharisMovement1960-1967">''The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements'', s.v. "Charismatic Movement: B. The Emergence of the Movement (1960–1967)".</ref> While cautiously supportive of the Charismatic Movement, the failure of Charismatics to embrace traditional Pentecostal teachings, such as the [[dancing ban|prohibition of dancing]], [[teetotalism|abstinence from alcohol]] and [[Religion and drugs#Christianity|other drugs]] such as tobacco, as well as restrictions on dress and appearance following the doctrine of [[outward holiness]], initiated an identity crisis for classical Pentecostals, who were forced to reexamine long held assumptions about what it meant to be Spirit filled.<ref name="Piepkorn1977">{{cite book|last1=Piepkorn|first1=Arthur Carl|title=Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada|date=1977|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0-06-066581-4|page=102|language=en}}</ref><ref name="RestoringtheFaith226">Blumhofer 1993, p. 226.</ref> The liberalizing influence of the Charismatic Movement on classical Pentecostalism can be seen in the disappearance of many of these taboos since the 1960s, apart from certain [[Holiness Pentecostal]] denominations, such as the [[Apostolic Faith Church]], which maintain these standards of [[outward holiness]]. Because of this, the cultural differences between classical Pentecostals and charismatics have lessened over time.<ref name="RestoringtheFaith236">Blumhofer 1993, p. 236.</ref> The global renewal movements manifest many of these tensions as inherent characteristics of Pentecostalism and as representative of the character of global Christianity.<ref>{{cite book|last=Vondey|first=Wolfgang|title=Pentecostalism: A Guide for the Perplexed|date=2013|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=978-0-567-52226-9|location=London and New York|pages=1–8}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page