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Pentecostals and a Sacramental Understanding of the Lord's Supper

Joseph Lee Dutko

Leiden

Brill

Most Pentecostal churches define the Lord's Supper as an ordinance, and they practice it mainly as a cognitive act of remembrance. This article argues that this ordinance/memorialist position is inconsistent with Pentecostal belief and practice in other areas and that a more sacramental understanding of the Lord's Supper would provide an opportunity for an intensification and revival of other Pentecostals core beliefs, particularly in the areas of pneumatology, eschatology, and ecclesiology. Despite a problematic and inconsistent history with sacramental thought, this study shows that Pentecostals inherently hold a sacramental worldview in their most distinctive belief of glossolalia, which provides a launching point for all other sacramental discussions in Pentecostal theology. The conclusion emerges that a more sacramental understanding of the Lord's Supper within Pentecostalism will provide a unique opportunity to promote, extend, and at times revive core Pentecostal beliefs and values and reinvigorate Spirit-centered worship in Pentecostal churches.

2017

252-271

Journal of Pentecostal Theology

26/2

1745-5251

ecclesiology

eschatology

General

glossolalia

History of Religion

Lord's Supper

ordinance

Pentecostal theology

pneumatology

Religious Studies

sacrament

Theology and World Christianity

Joseph Lee Dutko

10.1163/17455251-02602006

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