âFunction to Functionâ: Reinventing the Oil of Influence in African Pentecostalism
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This paper explores the practices, teachings, positive benefits, problematic aspects and perils associated with anointing with oil in recent African Pentecostal/charismatic ministries and churches. With particular focus upon the authorâs first-hand encounters with these phenomena in Ghana and Nigeria, various anointing practices and teachings are commended and critiqued in terms of biblical precedents and sacramental theological insights.
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âFunction to Functionâ: Reinventing the Oil of Influence in African Pentecostalism
In: Journal of Pentecostal TheologySearch for other papers by J. Asamoah-Gyadu in
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Abstract
This paper explores the practices, teachings, positive benefits, problematic aspects and perils associated with anointing with oil in recent African Pentecostal/charismatic ministries and churches. With particular focus upon the authorâs first-hand encounters with these phenomena in Ghana and Nigeria, various anointing practices and teachings are commended and critiqued in terms of biblical precedents and sacramental theological insights.
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| Abstract Views | 532 | 81 | 7 |
| Full Text Views | 49 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 59 | 1 | 0 |
