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Philip E. Blosser
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“we can say with certainty that the understanding and practice of “speaking in tongues” found in the Pentecostal-Charismatic tradition today is based on a nineteenth-century theory of glossolalia and a twentieth-century redefinition of “tongues” that are complete historical novelties.”
― Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination: Volume 1: The Modern Redefinition of Tongues
― Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination: Volume 1: The Modern Redefinition of Tongues
“nineteenth-century Higher Critical theory of glossolalia, which, instead of tracing the history of Christian “tongues” back through Church-approved sources to Pentecost (which they rejected as myth), traced it back through heretical Montanist ecstatics and ancient pagan sources such as Plutarch, Strabo, and others, to the caves of Delphi and Dodona where, well before the advent of Christianity,”
― Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination: Volume 1: The Modern Redefinition of Tongues
― Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination: Volume 1: The Modern Redefinition of Tongues
“The rejection of Catholic miracles thus became a rallying point in the Protestant endeavor to secure its own identity.”
― Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination: Volume 1: The Modern Redefinition of Tongues
― Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination: Volume 1: The Modern Redefinition of Tongues
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