What I didn't know ... what resources would help me learn about ...

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,031 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

The Catholic Charismatic movement, concentrated in Latin America but found all over the world, is one of the largest Pentecostal/Charismatic movements today (195 million worldwide).

Yes, my parish had a retired charismatic priest and the president of the state organization for charismatic Catholics as an active member, but I had no idea of the size of the movement. What charismatic Catholic resources are or should be available in Verbum?

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭

    This is of interest. https://www.gordonconwell.edu/blog/pentecostal-charismatic-christianity/ Also, I know plenty of people who are in this area. See these books below. 

    Cartledge, Mark J. Testimony in the spirit: Rescripting ordinary Pentecostal theology. New York: Routledge, 2016.

    Chappell, Keith. The Catholic charismatic renewal in the UK: worldview and the end times. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2023.

    Cordes, Paul Josef. Call to Holiness: Reflections on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Minneapolis: Liturgical Press, 1997.

    Csordas, Thomas J. "Global religion and the re-enchantment of the world: The case of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal." Anthropological theory 7, no. 3 (2007): 295-314. 

    Hocken, Peter. The Challenges of the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Messianic Jewish Movements: The Tensions of the Spirit. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2016. 

    Laurentin, René. Catholic pentecostalism. Garden City: Doubleday, 1977.

    Maurer, Susan A. The spirit of enthusiasm: A history of the Catholic charismatic renewal, 1967-2000. Lanham: University Press of America, 2010.

    Norget, Kristin., Napolitano, Valentina., Mayblin, Maya. The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017.

    Robinson, Douglas. "The'Ordo Salutis' and Charismatic Movement." Churchman 97: 232-43.

    Synan, Vinson. The Holiness-Pentecostal tradition: Charismatic movements in the twentieth century.Grand Rapids: William. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1997.

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't answer your question for you, but my mother (who was a very ecumenical conservative evangelical) was involved with a Catholic charismatic prayer group in our small city in western Massachusetts. She was also an honorary member of the local branch of Hadassah (a group for Jewish Zionist women). She spread her spiritual connections wide.

  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭

    The Catholic charismatic prayer group sounds like a lot of fun. I was never in a prayer group but always prayed in private. 

  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,031 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've picked up Cordes and Hocken. I'll let you know after I've read them.  Thanks for the list.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,031 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was never in a prayer group but always prayed in private. 

    Whereas the ACELO churches to different extents all have the divine office a.k.a. liturgy of the hours. Office here literally means "work" and the concept is that the work of the church is corporate/communal prayer. This is a prime example of the church reacting to the arising of the idea of an individual at the time of the Reformation mentioned in another thread. It is also a great example of what appears to be a minor difference in practice being a reflective of a major difference in worldview. I had noticed the difference in the forums when there are prayer requests - most people respond in the singular, my natural response is to respond in the plural.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."