Putting Old Wine in New Wine Skin: The Place of African Indigenous Churches in the Nigerian Pentecostals
| dc.contributor.author | Alamu, A. G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-18T12:32:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-10-18T12:32:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The phenomenon of Pentecostalism has been exhaustively discussed as a contemporary and topical issue. Thus, Pentecostalization of African Christianity has become a new phenomenon that has engaged the attention of many scholars since the mid-1960s. African, perhaps, Nigerian Pentecostalism, has constituted the fastest growing Christianity in the world. A handful of scholars have attributed this growth to the fact that they are distinct from the influence of the African Charismatic movements. In addition, some opine that Nigerian Pentecostals have no resemblance with African Instituted Churches. Despite the fact that some claim independence from the Pentecostals of Kenneth Haggin, Seymour, Topeka and Osborne, others subscribe to the fact that the above-named televangelists influenced the popularity of African perhaps Nigerian Pentecostalism. Out of these several submissions, the emphasis has to be placed on historical fact. Pentecostalism as a religious movement that started in the 20th Century has its origin in the emergence and spread of the African Independent Churches and emphasizes on visible gifts of the Holy Spirit, faith, healing and miracles as evident in both Old and New Testaments. Besides, some of the features of African Indigenous Churches are re-enacted and reemphasized in the Nigerian Pentecostals. The paper, therefore, adopted historical, theological and interpretative methods leading to the fact that the old wine in the new wineskins is the corresponding re-definition, re-emergence, continuity, and re-emphasis in the Nigerian Pentecostals that enhance the faith of both Pentecostal Christians and contemporary Neo-Pentecostal churches with new vigour and modern vitality. The paper, therefore, postulates that the emergence and spread of African Charismatic Movements immensely and tremendously contributed and still contribute to the phenomenal growth and popularity of Nigerian Pentecostalism. The paper concludes that the Holy Spirit, which though poses intellectual difficulty in scholarship, is the catalyst behind the old wine in the new wineskins. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1744-2532 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.31920/2516-5305/2019/v16n2a8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2788 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Institute for African Renaissance Studies Education, University of South Africa. | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Volume 16;Series 2 | |
| dc.subject | Old and New Wine | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pentecostalism | en_US |
| dc.subject | African Christianity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nigeria | en_US |
| dc.title | Putting Old Wine in New Wine Skin: The Place of African Indigenous Churches in the Nigerian Pentecostals | en_US |
| dc.type | Recording, musical | en_US |