Pentecostal theology emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century as a revivalist ideology focused on a transformative experience of Jesus Christ through a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit and has since then developed toward doctrinal and systematic formulations with attention to a wide range of theological, spiritual, ethical, sociocultural, philosophical, economic, and political concerns (Yong 2005). The debate on the character of Pentecostal theology shows a number of critical concerns surrounding the identity of Pentecostalism in di…