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Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945–1980

Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945–1980 BAPTIST QUARTERLY BOOK REVIEW Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945–1980, by John Maiden, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 288, £83.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-884749-6 ‘Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards’– so Soren Kier- kegaard. In the spirit of this undoubted truth John Maiden, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, gives a retrospective on one of the most significant religious phenomena of the second half of the twentieth century. He knows of what he speaks. The sources are extensive and range from interviews, oral testimonies, multiple archives, magazines and newsletters, albums and songs, and both primary and secondary published texts. Most participants in the ‘renewal’ will recognise much that is here, but perhaps for the first time will be introduced to the full scope of what they have been involved in. Accordingly, the analysis moves through an investigation of the more distant precursors of the movement, to the early out- breaks of charismatic phenomena, to the ways the new experiences were mediated to wider communities inside and outside the denominations, to the building of national and international relations and interactions, to the emergence of distinctive http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Baptist Quarterly Taylor & Francis

Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945–1980

Wright, Nigel G.
Baptist Quarterly , Volume OnlineFirst: 2 – Apr 26, 2023
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© 2023 Nigel G. Wright
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2056-7731
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10.1080/0005576X.2023.2204760
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BAPTIST QUARTERLY BOOK REVIEW Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945–1980, by John Maiden, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 288, £83.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-884749-6 ‘Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards’– so Soren Kier- kegaard. In the spirit of this undoubted truth John Maiden, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, gives a retrospective on one of the most significant religious phenomena of the second half of the twentieth century. He knows of what he speaks. The sources are extensive and range from interviews, oral testimonies, multiple archives, magazines and newsletters, albums and songs, and both primary and secondary published texts. Most participants in the ‘renewal’ will recognise much that is here, but perhaps for the first time will be introduced to the full scope of what they have been involved in. Accordingly, the analysis moves through an investigation of the more distant precursors of the movement, to the early out- breaks of charismatic phenomena, to the ways the new experiences were mediated to wider communities inside and outside the denominations, to the building of national and international relations and interactions, to the emergence of distinctive

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Published: Apr 26, 2023

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