Pentecostal Worship

• The Holy Spirit and Affect Theory by Sharon Willoughby, 6/4/98
  
  

Sharon, I have tried three times to respond. Here goes a forth.

Your well stated post on the Holy Spirit and affect theory is very stimulating and also difficult to respond to. The subject covers so much ground as Don Nathanson's helpful reply states in his first sentence.

My own upbringing,lifetime membership and professional leadership has been in a sector of Protestantism which eschews excitement and is suspicious of wild emotionality in religious practice. That very emotional sterility may be a cardinal reason why Silvan Tomkins' affect/script theory has been so appealing to me.

I have attended a number of Pentecostal worship services with keen interest, and with approbation for the obvious enhancement of positive affect which the large majority of worshippers manifested at the conclusion of the service. However, my own religious ideology is offended by the apparent narrowly personal, self-concerned focus of the services and the worship

• Incomplete message above by Dave McShane, 6/21/98
  • David, would you e-mail me? by Sharon, 6/22/98