Word: glossolalia
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...called "charismatic gifts"-prophecy, spiritual healing and glossolalia, or speaking in tongues-have long been characteristic of the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects. Increasingly, though, these unusual outpourings of spiritual feeling can be found in mainstream Protestant and even Roman Catholic congregations-and some church leaders are concerned about it. The 1968 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church ordered a special study of the spread of glossolalia. This month an ecumenical assembly of 120 churchmen met at Roman Catholic Dayton University in Ohio to discuss the movement...
Faith healing is now so common in Protestant churches that there is a nationwide Fellowship of St. Luke, which claims more than 20,000 members. Denominational leaders are considerably less enthusiastic about glossolalia, which is usually carried on by small groups, led as often as not by laymen outside the confines of the church. In Los Angeles alone, Lutheran Minister Rodney Lensch claims, there are hundreds of glossolalia cells. One of the few parishes that openly espouses the charismatic approach is the Church of the Good Shepherd in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Its pastor, the Rev. Lloyd Weber...
Pray for Baptism. The most notable recent spread of faith healing and glossolalia has been among college-level Roman Catholics. The movement began last year, when three young theology instructors at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh met to pray and found themselves, according to their testimony, simultaneously speaking in tongues. Similar experiments have since been tried at other Catholic schools. At Notre Dame, there is a cell of 30 glossolalia enthusiasts, including students and teachers from nearby St. Mary's College, who meet one night a week for prayer session...
...Christianson of Trinity Lutheran Church in San Pedro, Calif., contends that the gifts are "God's answer to the hyperintellectualism of our age" and the cold impersonality of formal worship. Surprisingly, even some Roman Catholic participants at the Dayton conference were cautiously optimistic about the prospect of incorporating glossolalia and healing into the spirituality of their church. Biblical Scholar Barnabas Mary Ahern, a peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council, argued that glossolalia should be "running at the very heart of the church," since "the life of the church is the life of the spirit...
...descriptive splurges seem old-fashioned at a time when most writers are still either in thrall to Hemingway's ideal of verbal simplicity or overflowing with a new kind of personal, revival-meeting combustion that lies somewhere between caterwauling and glossolalia. But prose style is one of the minor differences between Updike and his contemporaries. The larger fact is that however valid his own objectives and achievements, he has ignored the mainstream of contemporary Western fiction. The French, in the roman nouveau, have reduced the novel to a random series of received sounds and images; the English are tearing...