2022 Seoul Joint Consultation with WAPTE, October 10-11: “The Next Generation and the Holy Spirit".”
Event Type
Papers Read
Location
Yoido Full Gospel Church, Seoul, Korea
Start Date
10-10-2022 1:00 AM
End Date
10-10-2022 1:30 AM
Description
**E21 Scholar Consultation Papers are restricted to Consultation participants only. The are not available for public download.**
Rejuvenation of a Denomination: The Experience of the Church of Pentecost, Ghana
I deploy critical analysis, ethnographic techniques of in-depth interviews with CoP leadership, socio-history and my own immersion as a member of the CoP since the early 1990s. I argue that the rejuvenation of the CoP is also a result of cultural innovativeness that the post-Yeboah's regime, focusing particularly on Apostle Professor Opoku Onyinah, invested in choreographing a new image for the church. I maintain that, given Onyinah’s training at the University of Birmingham and his appreciation of cultural innovativeness and theological creativity, he incorporated adaptive leadership skills that helped the church to move away from Akan cultural atavism to embracing local and global geopolitical and cultural existential discursive realities.
Rejuvenation of a Denomination: The Experience of the Church of Pentecost, Ghana
Yoido Full Gospel Church, Seoul, Korea
**E21 Scholar Consultation Papers are restricted to Consultation participants only. The are not available for public download.**
Rejuvenation of a Denomination: The Experience of the Church of Pentecost, Ghana
I deploy critical analysis, ethnographic techniques of in-depth interviews with CoP leadership, socio-history and my own immersion as a member of the CoP since the early 1990s. I argue that the rejuvenation of the CoP is also a result of cultural innovativeness that the post-Yeboah's regime, focusing particularly on Apostle Professor Opoku Onyinah, invested in choreographing a new image for the church. I maintain that, given Onyinah’s training at the University of Birmingham and his appreciation of cultural innovativeness and theological creativity, he incorporated adaptive leadership skills that helped the church to move away from Akan cultural atavism to embracing local and global geopolitical and cultural existential discursive realities.
