Pentecostal theology regarding disability in African neo-Pentecostalism
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| Title | Pentecostal theology regarding disability in African neo-Pentecostalism | |
| Creator | Kgatle, Mookgo S. | |
| Description | The Pentecostal approach to disability is currently informed by the imposed healing, deliverance, and performance of other miracles, particularly among neo-Pentecostals in Africa. This is also informed by the neo-Pentecostal pastor’s radical approach to the aspect of healing in Pentecostal theology. Therefore, instead of addressing disability from the point of environmental, social, and technological aspects, neo-Pentecostal pastors either impose healing on the disabled body, or blame them for a lack of faith. This in a way presents some power dynamics between the abled neo-Pentecostal pastors’ bodies and the disabled congregant bodies. This article uses a critical theory, to argue that the development of the Pentecostal theology of disability should take cognisance of the environmental, social, and technological factors. When this is done, a Pentecostal setting in the form of a church service, crusade, or revival will not become a place of imposed healing and deliverance, but an environmentally, socially, and technologically friendly one, that is conducive to those living with a disability.Contribution: This article highlighted the importance of the environmental, social, and technological factors in the construction of a Pentecostal theology of disability among the neo-Pentecostal churches, in an African context. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2024-01-19 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ids.v58i1.3004 | |
| Source | In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi; Vol 58, No 1 (2024); 7 pages 2305-0853 1018-6441 | |
| Language | eng | |
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