Prolegomena are typically not expected to offer the ingredients for the most important chapters. In the vast landscape of contemporary confessional groups and theological traditions, prolegomena are rarely developed and hardly consulted. We like to skip them in an effort to get to the point, so to speak. And the point of theology, of course, is to identify a particular system of beliefs that distinguishes one group from another. Only that, in Pentecostalism,
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