Au coeur du Silence

Prophetic Authority Without Checks and Balances in New Prophetic Churches in Africa

Over the past two decades, a strand of African neo-Pentecostalism, often labelled New Prophetic Churches (NPC) or neo-prophetism, has concentrated spiritual authority in the person of a media-facing prophet little constrained by ecclesial safeguards. Drawing on peer-reviewed theological and sociological literature,…