Just one thought… to me it seems kind of a far stretch to compare the great schism with the development of the pentecostal/charismatic movement. As you mentioned, i think that the great schism involved a great deal of political and power struggles, which i don’t see that much in the pentecostal movement. Furthermore, the schism was just divisive and split Christianity in two, which was never again reversed. As for the pentecostal movement, i think there are hardliners in every Christian camp, such as people who say that one can’t be saved if you don’t speak in tongues and people who say that one can’t be saved if you do speak in tongues (casually spoken). But the overall picture i see tells me that this kind of “split” is much more nuanced and one can find all kinds of flavors between the two extremes.
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