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Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) is a common spiritual phenomenon in the Pentecostal and Charismatic streams of the Christian church. Such Christians believe that when they speak in tongues they are communicating with God in a language that they have never learned—spiritual prayer language given to them by the Holy Spirit. This innovative volume seeks to enhance our understanding and...

tongues Paul refers to in 1 Corinthians is ecstatic speech. In practice we do not know much about the psychological state of New Testament tongues-speech. Those who speak of it as ecstatic utterance tend either wrongly to assume that glōssais lalein belongs with a range of inspired-speech phenomena in non-Christian religions of antiquity (and which they assume were unintelligible and ‘ecstatic’), or they assume that New Testament tongues-speech is largely to be identified with reports of ecstatic
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