Signifying Black Pentecostal Theology
The Making of a Black Pentecostal Theological Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20162363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clifton Clarke (Adventist Health Simi Valley, corresponding author), Clifton R Clarke (Alliance for Black Pentecostal Scholarship Los Angeles, California USA) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 406-437 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pneuma (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-0965 • E-ISSN: 1570-0747 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700747-bja10156 |
| OpenAlex | W4417419124 |
| Language | EN |
This article frames Black Pentecostal theology as a Spirit-baptized, diasporic, and liberative theological tradition emerging from the lived realities of Black Pentecostal communities. Grounded in signification, this theology reclaims meaning-making from Eurocentric categories and centers Black experience, history, and spiritual encounter. Emphasizing embodiment, communal worship, pneumatological imagination, and eschatological hope, it resists reductionist framings and affirms the dynamic, polyphonic, and Spirit-led nature of Black faith. Black Renewal theology is not merely doctrinal but lived—sung, danced, testified, and struggled into being—a theology of resistance, remembrance, and renewal, attuned to the rhythms of Black life and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit
Black theology · Christian theology · Eschatology · Reductionism · Christian Theology and Mission · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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