In Pentecostal Theology and the Christian Spiritual Tradition, Simon Chan deals with the problem of Pentecostal “traditioning”—the process of passing on core values. Traditioning has been ineffective thus far because the richness of Pentecostal faith and experience has been inadequately captured in the classical Pentecostal doctrines of Spirit-baptism and speaking in tongues, or glossolalia. Chan proposes that a more adequate understanding of the key theological symbol of Pentecostalism—glossolalia—emerges when it is interpreted in light of the Christian spiritual tradition as a whole. Within this larger tradition glossolalia can be understood as bringing together both the ascetical and contemplative dimensions of the Christian life. Thus, Chan explores the shape of Pentecostal ecclesiology as “traditioning community.”
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