The Anointing: Is This Even Christian?

About this episode

The episode discusses the differences between the Pentecostal/Charismatic concept of 'the anointing' and historic Christian anointings, highlighting potential pitfalls of the former.

The Areopagites compare the Pentecostal/Charismatic concept of “the anointing” with historic Christian anointings and show how trading out the latter for the former leads to disaster. 0:00 - Cold open 0:40 - Intro 9:52 - Updates 26:13 - Storm clouds brewing over the Charismatic world 36:18 - "The Anointing" 49:25 - Anointing in Orthodox Christianity 1:11:11 - Impartation 1:26:49 - Spectacular spiritual gifts 1:43:02 - Good leadership requires holiness

People in this episode

Hosts: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, Michael Landsman

Topics covered

• anointing
• Pentecostalism
• Charismatic movement
• Orthodox Christianity
• spiritual gifts
• leadership
• holiness

Keywords

• anointing
• Pentecostal
• Charismatic
• Orthodox
• spiritual gifts
• leadership
• holiness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ancient Faith Ministries

Books & works: The Anointing

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