tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230344530531927799.post6452432241110451865..comments2023-04-28T06:59:37.174-04:00Comments on twoTwentyEight: Belief System of Oneness Pentecostalism 5Joseph Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00339898114118904716noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230344530531927799.post-91689566733780227022015-10-09T12:27:39.317-04:002015-10-09T12:27:39.317-04:00Early on in these current posts, the relationship ...Early on in these current posts, the relationship between worship and theology was, in my view, a breaking of new ground. These sociological and psychological underpinnings of the Oneness Pentecostal movement has received scant attention, not even among the Oneness Pentecostals themselves. Still, as an experience-oriented form of religion, it could hardly be any other way. The sociological and psychological features you have described for Oneness Pentecostals is not unlike the observations of Robert Mapes Anderson in his work The Vision of the Disinherited (Oxford University), which treated the larger field of Pentecostalism. The shift you've noted above in eschatological emphasis from a restoration of existing churches to antagonism toward all other churches has put the Oneness Pentecostals in the unenviable position of essentially claiming they are the only ones going to heaven.<br /><br />There has been some lessening of this hardened stanch very recently, however, at least in some quarters. For instance, the Oneness Pentecostal pastor in my own area has for the past few years participated in the National Day of Prayer with various other local pastors, including Baptists, Lutherans, other non-Oneness Pentecostals and evangelicals in general. I doubt that this would have happened two decades or more ago. Perhaps in time, the Oneness Pentecostals will see the short-sightedness of their harangue with the rest of the Christian church.Dan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12230336952558013110noreply@blogger.com