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This article is my response to Dr. Mary Healy’s 2024 podcast, “The Gift of Tongues Explained,” hosted by Ralph Martin’s Renewal Ministries channel. Dr. Healy’s summary represents an excellent summary of the current view promoted within the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR). Her presentation is winsome and sincere, and her view reflects the prevailing “Catholicized” Pentecostal view found among CCR adherents, which I believe is historically, theologically, and biblically unsupportable.
Please understand that I respect Dr. Healy as a person and that my personal relationship to her is collegial and amicable, despite the fact that we have agreed to disagree on this topic and each of us thinks the other dead wrong!
I believe most of our differences could be easily resolved if the CCR did two things: replaced the word “tongues” (1) with “jubilation” for their unintelligible nonlinguistic utterances, and (2) with “languages” for biblical references “tongues,” which is what the New Testament Greek always means, whether in Mark, Acts, or 1 Corinthians.
Readers are welcome to watch the Renewal Ministries video presentation if they wish. I have provided a “painfully-accurate” transcript below (in black), with my own responses (in red). Video time signatures are placed in brackets at the beginning of paragraphs.
“The Gift of Tongues Explained [Mary Healy],” Renewal Ministries (June 19, 2024) -
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RALPH MARTIN:
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Please understand that I respect Dr. Healy as a person and that my personal relationship to her is collegial and amicable, despite the fact that we have agreed to disagree on this topic and each of us thinks the other dead wrong!
I believe most of our differences could be easily resolved if the CCR did two things: replaced the word “tongues” (1) with “jubilation” for their unintelligible nonlinguistic utterances, and (2) with “languages” for biblical references “tongues,” which is what the New Testament Greek always means, whether in Mark, Acts, or 1 Corinthians.
Readers are welcome to watch the Renewal Ministries video presentation if they wish. I have provided a “painfully-accurate” transcript below (in black), with my own responses (in red). Video time signatures are placed in brackets at the beginning of paragraphs.
“The Gift of Tongues Explained [Mary Healy],” Renewal Ministries (June 19, 2024) -
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RALPH MARTIN:
Continued below.
A Response to "The Gift of Tongues Explained," by Mary Healy
This article is my response to Dr. Mary Healy’s 2024 podcast, “The Gift of Tongues Explained,” hosted by Ralph Martin’s Renewal Ministries ...
pblosser.blogspot.com
