Conversations with Erica and Walter Hollenweger

ABSTRACT

Two conversations offer complementary insights in the personal life of Walter J. Hollenweger and the motivations that contributed to and held together his scholarship on global Pentecostalism as well as his diverse academic interests in other fields. The first dialogue has been compiled from various interviews with Hollenweger and personal memories of exchanges. The second conversation is based on an unstructured interview with Erica Hollenweger in 2020.

KEYWORDS:

• Walter Hollenweger
• Erica Hollenweger
• interviews
• Pentecostalism

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes on the contributors

Wolfgang Vondey is Professor of Christian Theology and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Jean-Daniel Plüss is chair of the European Pentecostal Charismatic Research Association.

Notes

1 See van der Laan and Versteeg, “Bibliography of Walter J. Hollenweger.”

2 See especially Price, Theology Out of Place

3 Especially helpful was an interview by Kurt Studhalter on 27 March 1990 published as “Walter J. Hollenweger, Christsein in einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft,” and van der Laan, “Walter J. Hollenweger: A Pluriform Life,” as well as personal memories of conversations between Jean-Daniel Plüss and Walter J. Hollenweger.

4 Hollenweger, “Handbuch der Pfingstbewegung.”