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Theologian HARVEY COX

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Pentecostal membership worldwide is 410 million.
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COX, professor of divinity at Harvard Divinity School
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Pentecostalism originated in a converted stable in Los Angeles in 1906.
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By 2010, Pentecostals will outnumber all other non-Catholic Christians combined.
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Theologian HARVEY COX. His new book is "Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century" (Addison-Wesley). It is estimated that by the year 2010, there will be more Pentecostals than all other non-Catholic Christians put together. COX traces the growth of the religion from its origins in a converted stable in Los Angeles in 1906 to its present membership of 410 million worldwide. COX is a professor of divinity at Harvard Divinity School, and the author of "The Secular City."

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