Pentecostalism and «the spirit of unity, love and reconciliation» Thank you for the invitation to participate in this historic symposium. Historic because this is the first time an academic seminar of this character has been held in the context of the Norwegian Pentecostal movement. This could not have happened without the developments that we have had with education at the university level and the research that is now going on in the field of Pentecostalism in the Nordic countries. I am quite excited about this, and I find myself asking: Is this one of the tools God will use to raise Pentecostal Christianity at our latitude to «the next level»? I believe so, but on certain conditions. There have to be studies and research that keep a high standard and which have close ties to the reality we are faced with; we must be willing to learn from others, but also be a theological corrective and dare to be alternative. We must be capable of raising critical – but constructive – questions about
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