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unusual facts about speaking in tongues



Chinese Independent Churches

Pentecostalism stresses the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" and the use of supernatural spiritual gifts such as prophecy, healing, and speaking in unknown tongues, and is fired by a strong millennialism (expecting the return of Christ at any moment; this feature was also characteristic of many others of the newer mission groups (especially Holiness and Adventist ones).

Dæmonomania

When Rosie meets Pierce again, she tells him, to his horror, of her experience speaking in tongues, and the Powerhouse's plans of producing a restored Aramaic New Testament rejecting linguistic scholarship, in favour of charismatic experience.

Oneness Pentecostalism

They believe that the spiritual gifts found in the New Testament are still active in the church; hence, services are often spontaneous, being punctuated at times with acts of speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophetic messages, and the laying on of hands for the purposes of healing.


see also

Angelic language

Glossolalia, the "speaking in tongues" of Pentecostalism, sometimes interpreted as the speech of angels transmitted through humans

Barney Coombs

The main thrust of this group was that a return of the 'charismatic gifts' (i.e. prophecy and speaking in tongues) to the traditional denominations was not sufficient, and that the church needed to be restored to the New Testament forms of church government as described in St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist and Pastor/Teacher (Eph 4:11).

Gramercy Theatre

Performances included Charles Randolph-Wright's play with music, Blue starring Phylicia Rashad; Conor McPhereson's A Skull in Connemara; Speaking in Tongues with Karen Allen; and Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle.

Hugh M‘Neile

His experience of the deception of Okey Sisters’ reputed speaking in tongues with Irving, and his knowledge of their later association with Elliotson and his mesmerism, and their well-attested fraudulent deception of Elliotson, must have strongly informed his later views of the activities of magnetists such as Lafontaine.