Persecution has long constituted part of the spiritual repertoire of evangelical Christians in Ethiopia. Ever since its introduction by Western missionaries, the new Christian faith has provided an alternative model to the one that pre-existed it in the form of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (
This article explores the theme of persecution of Evangelical Christians in light of the above framework. It crucially examines the persecution of Pentecostals prior to the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 and afterwards. Two reasons justify my choice. First, it lends the article a clear focus and secondly, Pentecostalism has been one of the potent vehicles for the expansion of evangelical Christianity in Ethiopia. I argue that the pre-revolutionary persecution stems from the fact that the Pentecostals presented some kind of spiritual shock waves to the familiar terrains of Christianity and that the main reason for their persecutions during the revolution was the fact that they countered hegemonic narratives that presented themselves in the form of Marxism, which became the doctrine of the state under the banner of “scientific socialism.”
逼迫早已成了在埃塞俄比亚的福音派基督徒的属灵汇辑的一部分。
自从西方传教士的介绍,新的基督教信仰提供了一个别样的模式,以代替之前存在的埃塞俄比亚东正教 (
国家支持长期以来建立的教会,加上其大规模的影响,也给予了
Desde hace mucho tiempo la persecución ha sido parte de la vida espiritual de los cristianos evangélicos de Etiopía. La nueva fe cristiana, desde que fue introducida por los misioneros occidentales, ha proporcionado un modelo alternativo al de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Etíope (
El apoyo del estado, obtenido por muchos años obtenido por la Iglesia establecida, y sus influencias masivas, han colocado a la
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Persecution has long constituted part of the spiritual repertoire of evangelical Christians in Ethiopia. Ever since its introduction by Western missionaries, the new Christian faith has provided an alternative model to the one that pre-existed it in the form of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (
This article explores the theme of persecution of Evangelical Christians in light of the above framework. It crucially examines the persecution of Pentecostals prior to the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 and afterwards. Two reasons justify my choice. First, it lends the article a clear focus and secondly, Pentecostalism has been one of the potent vehicles for the expansion of evangelical Christianity in Ethiopia. I argue that the pre-revolutionary persecution stems from the fact that the Pentecostals presented some kind of spiritual shock waves to the familiar terrains of Christianity and that the main reason for their persecutions during the revolution was the fact that they countered hegemonic narratives that presented themselves in the form of Marxism, which became the doctrine of the state under the banner of “scientific socialism.”
逼迫早已成了在埃塞俄比亚的福音派基督徒的属灵汇辑的一部分。
自从西方传教士的介绍,新的基督教信仰提供了一个别样的模式,以代替之前存在的埃塞俄比亚东正教 (
国家支持长期以来建立的教会,加上其大规模的影响,也给予了
Desde hace mucho tiempo la persecución ha sido parte de la vida espiritual de los cristianos evangélicos de Etiopía. La nueva fe cristiana, desde que fue introducida por los misioneros occidentales, ha proporcionado un modelo alternativo al de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Etíope (
El apoyo del estado, obtenido por muchos años obtenido por la Iglesia establecida, y sus influencias masivas, han colocado a la
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 1447 | 312 | 45 |
| Full Text Views | 308 | 5 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 268 | 8 | 0 |