Dr. Raymond René Pfister

• Associate Pastor and Director of Christian Education (Assemblies of God) “Eglise Evangélique de Pentecôte“, Mulhouse, France, 1984 – 1987
• Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Theology Continental Theological Seminary, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Brussels, Belgium, 1987 – 1989
• Associate Pastor (Pentecostal Church), “Christengemeinde ELIM“, Hamburg, Germany, 1990 – 1992
• Lecturer Department of Protestant Theology (Ecumenism and Missiology), University of Hamburg, Germany, 1992 – 1993
• Director, “PARK-IN Treffpunkt Billstedt“, a Salvation Army medical and counseling center aimed at multiple social disabled alcohol addicts (low-key approach), Hamburg, Germany, 1993 – 2001
• Lecturer, Academy of Mission at the University of Hamburg, Germany, 1994 – 2004
• Lecturer, teaching seminars for Pastors and Leaders of immigrant (mostly African and Asian) churches in Germany, 2001 – 2004
• Lecturer, Institut Biblique et Théologique (IBETO), Orvin, Switzerland, 2004 – 2006
• Senior Pastor, “La Colombe” (Charismatic Baptist Church), Castres, France, 2004 – 2006
• Principal and Senior Lecturer in Theology and History, Birmingham Christian College, UK, 2006 – 2009
• Visiting Lecturer in Global Pentecostalism Faculté de Formation Théologique de Bruxelles, Eglise de Dieu en Belgique, 2011
• (External) Director of Studies/Research Supervisor, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), UK, 2009 – 2018
• Senior Tutor (Approved Tutor of the University of Chester), Biblical Theology and Messianic Judaism, King’s Evangelical Divinity School, UK, 2012 – 2020
• Pastor (Evangelical Church, FREE) Eglise Evangélique Libre de Fribourg, Switzerland, 2013 – 2014
• External Collaborator / Independent Researcher, Faculty of Theology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2014 – 2021
• Modern language teacher – English, French, and German, Migros Club School Fribourg, Switzerland, 2017 – 2022

• Pastor-teacher [ecumenical and intercultural project], Groupe de partage biblique interconfessionnel “La Colombe”, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2014 – 2018
• Professional membership:
  • Society for Pentecostal Studies 1980 – 2011
  • Council of Associations involved in the ambulatory treatment of alcohol addiction Hamburg, Germany, 1996 – 2001
  • Commission on Drugs and Addiction Health Department of the City of Hamburg, Germany, 2000 – 2001
  • Theological Committee Council of Christian Churches of Hamburg, Germany, 1991 – 2004
  • European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism, 2005 – present
  • Association of Bible College Principals, UK and Ireland, 2006 – 2009
  • European Evangelical Accrediting Association (EEAA), 2006 – 2009
  • Working Group on Mission and Unity – Ecclesiology and Mission (Edinburgh 2010), Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Editorial board and contributor:
    • The Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association, 2013 – present (regular member since 1987)
    • Hokhma, Revue de réflexion théologique (in French), 2015 – present

Books

• Forthcoming: Le renouveau de l’Esprit, un christianisme sans frontières. Paris : Editions du Cerf, 2024
• Forthcoming: Les béatitudes et l’Evangile du Royaume : un nouveau regard pour une meilleure écoute, 2025
• Soixante ans de pentecôtisme en Alsace (1930 -1990): une approche socio-historique. Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity. Vol. 93. Foreword by Professor Walter J. Hollenweger. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 1995.

Chapters in edited books (from 2001 to present):

• Forthcoming: ‘Pentecostals, European Union, and nationalism’ in Pentecostal Public Theology in Europe: Engaged Christianity, Transformed Society, edited by Mark J. Cartledge and Simo Frestadius, 2023
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘Pentecostalism in France: A Multiform and Ecumenical Movement of the Spirit?’ in Global Renewal Christianity: Spirit-Empowered Movements Past, Present, and Future, vol. IV: Europe and North America, edited by Vinson Synan & Amos Yong, eds (Lake Mary, Fla.: Charisma House Publishers, 2017)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘Pentecôtismes, œcuménisme de l’Esprit et unité des chrétiens’ in L’unité des chrétiens Pourquoi ? Pour quoi ? Actes du colloque de l’Institut supérieur d’études oecuméniques (Paris, 17-19 mars 2015), edited by Michel Mallèvre (Paris: Le Cerf, 2016)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘The Development of Pentecostalism in Francophone Europe’ in European Pentecostalism, edited by William Kay and Anne Dyer. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, Vol. 6. (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘The Future(s) of Pentecostalism in Europe’ in European Pentecostalism, edited by William Kay and Anne Dyer. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, Vol. 6. (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
• Pfister, Raymond (co-author), ‘Pentecostal Theology and Catholic Europe’ in European Pentecostalism, edited by William Kay and Anne Dyer. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, Vol. 6 (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘Gypsies, Charismatic Movement among’ in Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, edited by David M. Patte (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Pfister, Raymond (co-author), ‘Theme Eight: Mission and Unity – Ecclesiology and Mission’ in Edinburgh 2010 Volume II Witnessing to Christ Today., edited by Daryl Balia and Kirsteen Kim (Oxford: Regnum, 2010)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘Ecumenism of the Spirit: Toward a Pentecostal Pedagogy of Reconciliation’ in Pentecostalism and Christian Unity: Ecumenical Documents and Critical Assessments, edited by Wolfgang Vondey (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2010)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘Pratiques missionnaires pentecôtistes et oecuménisme. Récit d’expérience d’un théologien pentecôtiste’ in Œcuménisme et pratiques missionnaires. Actes du 21e colloque du Centre de recherche et d’échanges sur la diffusion et l’inculturation du christianisme organisé avec la collaboration du Centre Vincent Lebbe (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 27-31 August 2000). Collection Mémoire d’Eglises (Paris: Karthala, 2002)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘Les Assemblées de Dieu en Alsace : une expression classique du pentecôtisme français’ in Actualité des protestantismes évangéliques, Société, Droit et Religion en Europe (SDRE), edited by Christopher Sinclair (Strasbourg, France: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2002)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘Pentecostalism and Ecumenism in France: A Critical Examination of Seeming Antipodes’ in Pfingstkirchen und Ökumene in Bewegung. Beiheft zur Ökumenische Rundschau, volume 71, 199-216 edited by Christoph Dahling-Sander, Kai M. Funkschmidt and Vera Mielke (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2001)

Journal Articles (from 2000 to present)

• Pfister, Raymond, ‘A Pentecostal journey to unity across Europe and beyond borders’, The Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association, Vol. 34.2 (2014)
• Pfister, Raymond, ‘Pentecôtisme et sionisme : une relation en quête de cohérence’ in Hokhma. Revue de réflexion théologique, N° 106, 2014
• ‘Le Pentecôtisme européen’ in Spiritus. Revue d’expériences et recherche missionnaire, N° 216, Septembre 2014.
• ‘Pierre Nicolle, home de culture et home de réveil’ Nord’. Revue de critique et de création littéraire du Nord/Pas-de-Calais in Protestantisme et Littérature. N°56 – December 2010, 81-85.
• ‘Does Europe matter? Toward a European Agenda for the Church’ Evangelical Review of Society and Politics, Vol. 3 No.1 March 2009, 37-56.
• ‘An urgent plea for a real Ecumenism of the Spirit’ in Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association, Vol. XXIX No. 1 (2009), 8-25.
• ‘An urgent plea for a real ecumenism of the Spirit: Revisiting Evangelicalism and Ecumenism within Pentecostal-Charismatic Theological Education’ in Evangel: The British Evangelical Review, Spring 2008, 21-27.
• ‘Perception de la Mission: Le point de vue pentecôtiste: annoncer, guérir et convertir’ in Œcuménisme et Mission commune des Eglises aujourd’hui. Supplément to n°138 (January 2003) of the Journal Mission de l’Eglise.
• ‘Pentecostalism and Ecumenism: A Critical Examination of Seeming Antipodes in light of Recent Developments within French Pentecostalism’ in The Spirit and Church. Theological Journal of the Gospel Theological Seminary, Daejeon, South Korea, November 2001.
• ‘Le défi œcuménique des missions pentecôtistes. Un point de vue pentecôtiste européen’ in Perspectives Missionnaires. Revue protestante de Missiologie. N° 39 – 2000/1, 19-32.

And numerous book reviews (published in English or French).