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单词 Pentecostal
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Definition of Pentecostal in English:

Pentecostal

adjectivepɛntɪˈkɒst(ə)l
  • 1Relating to Pentecost.

  • 2Relating to or denoting any of a number of Christian movements emphasizing baptism in the Holy Spirit, evidenced by ‘speaking in tongues’, prophecy, healing, and exorcism.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While much of what they do indicates a shallow, extra-biblical emphasis, genuine conversions are occurring in some Pentecostal churches, and there is some evidence of spiritual growth and zeal for evangelism.
    • As a result, a generation of young people has spent the past ten years looking for alternatives to the Presbyterian church, and many have ended up in Pentecostal churches.
    • Among Protestant denominations, Pentecostal and fundamentalist sects - called evangelical churches - have had the largest growth.
    • Global flows of religious belief and practice are filtered and shaped by local conditions: Pentecostal Christianity takes on local color.
    • Its avowed aim was to introduce the Pentecostal experience to other Christian denominations.
    • And the number is growing, thanks to prophetic Pentecostal movements and the like.
    • A devout Pentecostal Christian, he was determined to make the beverage in such a way as to contain less than 1% alcohol.
    • As an evangelical and Pentecostal Christian, he listens carefully to the critical voices from his own camp, while continually pushing its boundaries toward a more ecumenically open stance.
    • In Fort Worth, Texas, for example, a church integrates traditional Gypsy faith with Christian Pentecostal ritual.
    • Because hearing the voice of God is considered normative within the Pentecostal tradition, hearing a voice external to one's self is not necessarily a manifestation of mental illness with Pentecostal Christians.
    • Arminian Baptists, Brethren and Pentecostal churches have preached the gospel of Christ within their own limited understanding.
    • No one is suggesting that Catholics stop referring to the Anglican, Lutheran and Pentecostal churches.
    • Those who represent the Pentecostal movement say that missionaries function as apostles.
    • She was a young Pentecostal Christian from the Ukraine who had been brought to America as a child in the 1980s to escape Communist oppression.
    • I am a lifelong practicing Roman Catholic who has had the good fortune to spend many Sundays in Baptist and Pentecostal churches.
    • Because I became a Christian in a Pentecostal church, I still have a lot of affection, respect and genuine sympathy for Pentecostals and Charismatics.
    • The effort is notable in seeking out evangelical and Pentecostal churches that have not traditionally been a part of Faith and Order discussions, along with Roman Catholics, Orthodox and mainline Protestants.
    • I started going to Sunday school in a Pentecostal church in my hometown.
    • My mother is a very religious Pentecostal Christian.
    • But eight months later, social workers found a foster family for them - Pentecostal Christians who raised them with abundant love and gave them confidence, joie de vivre and the urge to give back.
nounpɛntɪˈkɒst(ə)l
  • A member of a Pentecostal movement.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Today, almost 525 million people around the world identify themselves as Pentecostals or charismatics.
    • Nevertheless, Pentecostals share with evangelicals a conservative approach to marriage and gender relations.
    • Among Protestants, it's evangelicals, Pentecostals and other theological conservatives who account for nearly half the total.
    • Within Protestantism, numerical growth and spiritual dynamism seem to have migrated to evangelicals, Pentecostals and charismatics, especially in non-Western countries.
    • The whole fire and brimstone preaching I have herd is mainly with Baptists, Pentecostals, First Church of Latter-Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses.
    • As it happens, it is a fairly hopeful report on discussions between Catholics, evangelicals, Pentecostals, and others in Latin America.
    • Members of fundamentalist churches, Mormons, and Pentecostals commonly exhibit a stronger missionary thrust than Catholics.
    • This approach is shared by many Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
    • My father is the minister at Church of God for Pentecostals.
    • When Pentecostals joined the Evangelicals in America, they were willing to give up the role of women in ministry and the role of women preaching, and I think in many instances in Australia, that's only just starting to be re-thought about.
    • I don't hold up my experience as typical - and I am glad to have discovered over the years that it is by and large not typical of Pentecostals and Pentecostal churches.
    • Center stage is now occupied by Pentecostals, charismatics, evangelicals, fundamentalists, conservative Baptists and Lutherans, and select Roman Catholic writers and movements.
    • However, there are increasing numbers of independent church members, including Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-Day Adventists.
    • And really, the Pentecostals and the evangelical Protestants in South America are making tremendously powerful, huge inroads into Catholic populations in cities.
    • Small religious groups of Evangelicals and Pentecostals grew while the dominant churches dramatically shrank in the first half of the 20th Century.
    • Of course, this may reflect the relative paucity of written prayer among ‘lower church’ evangelicals and Pentecostals.
    • In Latin America, we see some decline because of inroads by Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
    • At the same time, his work has been hampered by weak financial support from the state, while Protestants, especially Pentecostals, have moved with great vigor, setting up local-language congregations across the region.
    • But evangelicals and Pentecostals should, it is urged, give up their separatist ways.
    • Here, evangelicals are at one with Pentecostals in their rejection of ecclesial institutionalism, hierarchicalism, and traditionalism.

Derivatives

  • Pentecostalism

  • noun ˌpɛntɪˈkɒst(ə)lɪz(ə)mˌpɛn(t)əˈkɔst(ə)lˌɪzəm
    • To begin with, at one level, it is arguable that both evangelicalism and Pentecostalism have origins in North America during the first half of the twentieth century.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The plurality of roots feeding both Pentecostalism and evangelicalism explains, at least in part, the diversity of both movements today.
      • Here, again, comparisons and contrasts between Pentecostalism and evangelicalism are evident.
  • Pentecostalist

  • adjective ˌpɛntɪˈkɒst(ə)lɪstˌpɛn(t)əˈkɔst(ə)ləst
    • Relating to a Pentecostal movement.

      a Pentecostalist preacher
      Pentecostalist views

Rhymes

hostel, intercostal
 
 

Definition of Pentecostal in US English:

Pentecostal

adjective
  • 1Relating to Pentecost.

  • 2Relating to or denoting any of a number of Christian movements and individuals emphasizing baptism in the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and exorcism.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Arminian Baptists, Brethren and Pentecostal churches have preached the gospel of Christ within their own limited understanding.
    • Global flows of religious belief and practice are filtered and shaped by local conditions: Pentecostal Christianity takes on local color.
    • But eight months later, social workers found a foster family for them - Pentecostal Christians who raised them with abundant love and gave them confidence, joie de vivre and the urge to give back.
    • Its avowed aim was to introduce the Pentecostal experience to other Christian denominations.
    • Because I became a Christian in a Pentecostal church, I still have a lot of affection, respect and genuine sympathy for Pentecostals and Charismatics.
    • In Fort Worth, Texas, for example, a church integrates traditional Gypsy faith with Christian Pentecostal ritual.
    • Among Protestant denominations, Pentecostal and fundamentalist sects - called evangelical churches - have had the largest growth.
    • As a result, a generation of young people has spent the past ten years looking for alternatives to the Presbyterian church, and many have ended up in Pentecostal churches.
    • I started going to Sunday school in a Pentecostal church in my hometown.
    • A devout Pentecostal Christian, he was determined to make the beverage in such a way as to contain less than 1% alcohol.
    • My mother is a very religious Pentecostal Christian.
    • As an evangelical and Pentecostal Christian, he listens carefully to the critical voices from his own camp, while continually pushing its boundaries toward a more ecumenically open stance.
    • I am a lifelong practicing Roman Catholic who has had the good fortune to spend many Sundays in Baptist and Pentecostal churches.
    • The effort is notable in seeking out evangelical and Pentecostal churches that have not traditionally been a part of Faith and Order discussions, along with Roman Catholics, Orthodox and mainline Protestants.
    • Those who represent the Pentecostal movement say that missionaries function as apostles.
    • While much of what they do indicates a shallow, extra-biblical emphasis, genuine conversions are occurring in some Pentecostal churches, and there is some evidence of spiritual growth and zeal for evangelism.
    • Because hearing the voice of God is considered normative within the Pentecostal tradition, hearing a voice external to one's self is not necessarily a manifestation of mental illness with Pentecostal Christians.
    • No one is suggesting that Catholics stop referring to the Anglican, Lutheran and Pentecostal churches.
    • She was a young Pentecostal Christian from the Ukraine who had been brought to America as a child in the 1980s to escape Communist oppression.
    • And the number is growing, thanks to prophetic Pentecostal movements and the like.
noun
  • A member of a Pentecostal movement.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And really, the Pentecostals and the evangelical Protestants in South America are making tremendously powerful, huge inroads into Catholic populations in cities.
    • Here, evangelicals are at one with Pentecostals in their rejection of ecclesial institutionalism, hierarchicalism, and traditionalism.
    • As it happens, it is a fairly hopeful report on discussions between Catholics, evangelicals, Pentecostals, and others in Latin America.
    • Members of fundamentalist churches, Mormons, and Pentecostals commonly exhibit a stronger missionary thrust than Catholics.
    • At the same time, his work has been hampered by weak financial support from the state, while Protestants, especially Pentecostals, have moved with great vigor, setting up local-language congregations across the region.
    • Of course, this may reflect the relative paucity of written prayer among ‘lower church’ evangelicals and Pentecostals.
    • The whole fire and brimstone preaching I have herd is mainly with Baptists, Pentecostals, First Church of Latter-Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses.
    • In Latin America, we see some decline because of inroads by Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
    • When Pentecostals joined the Evangelicals in America, they were willing to give up the role of women in ministry and the role of women preaching, and I think in many instances in Australia, that's only just starting to be re-thought about.
    • This approach is shared by many Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
    • I don't hold up my experience as typical - and I am glad to have discovered over the years that it is by and large not typical of Pentecostals and Pentecostal churches.
    • Center stage is now occupied by Pentecostals, charismatics, evangelicals, fundamentalists, conservative Baptists and Lutherans, and select Roman Catholic writers and movements.
    • Within Protestantism, numerical growth and spiritual dynamism seem to have migrated to evangelicals, Pentecostals and charismatics, especially in non-Western countries.
    • Today, almost 525 million people around the world identify themselves as Pentecostals or charismatics.
    • Small religious groups of Evangelicals and Pentecostals grew while the dominant churches dramatically shrank in the first half of the 20th Century.
    • But evangelicals and Pentecostals should, it is urged, give up their separatist ways.
    • Nevertheless, Pentecostals share with evangelicals a conservative approach to marriage and gender relations.
    • My father is the minister at Church of God for Pentecostals.
    • Among Protestants, it's evangelicals, Pentecostals and other theological conservatives who account for nearly half the total.
    • However, there are increasing numbers of independent church members, including Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-Day Adventists.
 
 
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