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Charisms and Charismatic Renewal: A Biblical and Theological Study is unavailable, but you can change that!

The rapid growth of the charismatic renewal in the Catholic Church has brought with it both controversy and confusion, and it has raised a number of important theological questions. Is it an authentic renewal movement? Exactly what is the baptism of the Holy Spirit? How should we understand the gift of tongues? What is prophecy? Does God really heal by supernatural means? One by one, Francis...

Neo-pentecostal Protestants provided the bridge across the chasm that had previously separated Pentecostals and Catholics. The reading of two books about Pentecostalism8 led four Catholic lay faculty members at Duquesne University to seek out a group of neo-pentecostal Protestants in a Pittsburgh suburb, so that they mi̅̇ght learn from them how to receive the “baptism in the Spirit.” After attending several prayer meetings with this group,
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