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n. - The principles and practices of various Christian groups, usually fundamentalist, that emphasize the activity of the Holy Spirit, stress holiness of living, and express their religious feelings uninhibitedly, as by speaking in tongues. .

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  • His brand of evangelicalism, known as pentecostalism, featured "glossolalia" (speaking in tongues), ecstatic worship and divine healing.
  • Yet as I survey the sociological landscape of Catholicism, I can well understand why cradle Catholics who are not versed in ecclesiology, or indeed who are not well-catechized...
  • You are so reactionary to pentecostalism that you have reacted also to the charismatic.
  • Does she share your same view on pentecostalism, calvinism and other views you've expressed here?
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