Pentecostal Formation: A Pedagogy among the Oppressed (Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series)

The Pentecostal movement has been subject to some negative external assumptions. In this enlightening and challenging book, Cheryl Bridges Johns argues that, in fact, Pentecostals employ a powerful process of formation of catechesis, which has enabled millions of believers to own and articulate the Christian story. She engages dialectically with the work of Paulo Freire, a specialist in education among the marginalized. As well as looking more broadly at the nature of all catechesis, there is also an attempt to move beyond the rationalism found in a praxis epistemology. The Pentecostal movement has been subject to some negative external assumptions. In this book, Cheryl Bridges Johns argues that, in fact, Pentecostals employ a powerful process of formation of catechesis, which has enabled millions of believers to own and articulate the Christian story. She engages with the work of Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) , a specialist in education among the marginalised Freire's educational paradigm -- Freire's theological framework -- Pentecostalism as a movement of conscientization -- A Pentecostal paradigm for catecheiss.