The glossolalie (of the old Greek γλῶσσα / glôssa , “language” and λαλέω / laleô , “speech”) is a phenomenon met in Christianity, the shamanism, spiritism, etc

For the Christians, the glossolalie corresponds to the “speech in Langue S”, phenomenon describes in the Acts of the Apostles (II, 6 sq.). That which practices the glossolalie received the gift to request aloud - voluntarily - in a Foreign language (Xénolalie) which it does not know nor does not include/understand. It is sometimes about the “Langue of the angels” (glossolalie true).

Saint Paul insists on the interpretation of the languages in the First epistle with the Corinthians (chapter 14).

Christianity

Speech in languages in the Writings

The only time where the speech in languages is evoked in the Gospels, it is in the Gospel according to Marc:

“And here the signs which will accompany those which will have believed: on my behalf they will drive out the demons, they will speak in new languages, it will seize snakes, and if they drink some mortal poison, it will not make them evil; they will impose the hands to the disabled person, and those will be cured. ” (Mc 16,17-18)

According to the Acts of the New Testament (ac 2,1-4), the Holy Spirit goes down at the time of the Pentecost on the brought together disciples, of which the Apôtres. Always according to the Acts of the Apostles, this event is done with a noise which attracts external crowd. Each member of crowd intends them to speak and adore in its clean Native tongue.

One can think that Paul de Tarse refers to the glossolalie in the 1st letter with the Corinthians in the chapter 13 verse 1:

“I could be able to speak the language about the men and the angels, but if I do not have love, my speeches are not only any more a noisy drum or that a bell which resounds. ” (Bible in French running)

Here the expression " language of the anges" can, possibly, being interpreted like an unknown language with the men. If Paul speaks about it in this letter, there is strong chance so that certain Corinthians spoke this " language of the anges" and that they were prevailed about it. But, as everyone knows it did not have no apparatus of audio recording there at the time. Any attempt at rebuilding of what could be this language of the angels cannot be historically founded.

Description

The glossolalie is thus, for the Christians, a gift which makes it possible the Fidèle to speak a Langue that it learned forever under the action of the the Holy Spirit. This one intervenes in the Prière sometimes by “unutterable moanings” (Roman 8).

Often, the subject does not include/understand itself, and is not included/understood of its entourage. Certain evangelic movements Protestant, such as the pentecotists, and the charismatic catholic with their continuation attach a great importance to this type of demonstration. However Paul de Tarse, which evokes the phenomenon, defines it as “smallest of the Dons of the Spirit” although he is delighted “to speak in Langue S more than you others” (1 Co 14). This charisma is regarded as smallest because it is by him that one can open with a multitude others, indeed, it lays out the Nobody with being surprised by the Saint Spirit by showing of humility and Liberté.

There is also an alternative of the glossolalie: for some, always it is not a question of speaking a human language, it can as act of the “language of the Ange S”, i.e. a mysterious speech for the men, as only God can include/understand. Therefore Paul says “Indeed, that which speaks in languages does not speak to the men, but to God, because nobody understands it, and it is in spirit that he says mysteries. ” (1 Co 14:2)

Interpretation of the languages

However, this interpretation remains very debatable. The subject of Saint Paul in the chapter 14 of the first epistle to the Corinthians is to respect the Église and its benevolence. He thus claims that those which speak in others Langue S have also the gift to interpret (what is complementary to speech in languages):

“This is why that which speaks in language must request to be able to interpret. Because if I request in language, my spirit is in prayer, but my intelligence does not withdraw any fruit from it. What to thus make? I will request with the spirit, but I will also request with the intelligence. I will say an anthem with the spirit, but I will also say it with the intelligence. ” (1Co 14,13-15)

It thus is not about an unknown language of the men. The element which supports this thesis is that the speech in languages is used for the evangelization (1Co 14,21), therefore with speaking with other men in current languages.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic church, the the Holy Spirit is the interpreter of the Writing.

See also: the Holy Spirit, interprets Writing

Speech in languages in the charismatic Churches

Nowadays, the charismatic Églises propose the Dons of the Spirit with in particular the speech in languages without these languages being true known languages. That causes a real debate because no one cannot thus check if this gift is a real or right desire to have supernatural Talent S coming from God.

However, Paul asks the assembly to check the dires prophets (1Co14: 29), but that becomes impossible when one affirms speech in an unknown language. This is why Paul asks those which speak in language to be keep silent if there is no interpretation]] (1Co14: 28).

Speech in languages in the pentecotism

Some Pentecôtiste S believe that there exist three types of cases different from the speech in languages:

• the first, it is the speech in Langue S like initial proof of the baptism of the Holy Spirit;
• the second is a language of prayer developed in the daily prayer with God;
• the third, it is the speech in language as a public followed by his interptetation.

They believe that all the Christians can obtain the Baptême of the Holy Spirit if they are at least repented, and that they made the request with God and wait the moment of it that it chose so that takes place. The Pentecôtiste S believe that in the public assemblies, a person having the gift of the speech in languages can speak in languages at the time of a service of Church so that all hear. They believe that God will give to another Christian present the gift of the interpretation and that the Christian with the gift of the interpretation will be entitled to repeat in the Langue of the audience what the first nobody said so that each one can include/understand what was said and be built about it. They believe that some people only receive the gift of the speech in languages, while all have the possibility of receiving the Baptême of the Holy Spirit and of developing a language of Prière with God. It is what was evoked by the Paul apostle in 1 Corinthians 12-14.

Speech in languages among Mormons

The founder Joseph Smith (1805 - 1844) of the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the last days, believed in the glossolalie.

Criticisms

The critics say that these doctrines do not stick well to criticisms a Paul formulated with regard to the primitive Corinthian Church about the speech in languages. Paul affirmed that the speech in language is one of the gifts of the Spirit and is not granted to all; there are other gifts which are granted to others, of which the gift of prophecy. (See 1 Corinthians, chapters 12 to 14 in the New Testament)

In addition, the conversion of Crow (Acts, chapter 10 and 11) watch that the Spirit expressed by the speech in language is comparable with the event of Pentecost (Acts 11:15). 10 years were passed between the two facts. The case of the disciples of Jean converted in Jesus into Acts 19 is still different, since one sees the apostle imposing his hands to the disciples, gesture of transmission of the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, who was reserved only to the apostles, according to Actes 8:18.

The members of the speech in languages affirm that the position pentecotist is narrowly on line with the emphase of Luc in the book of the Acts and reflects a use more sophisticated of the Herméneutique. Moreover, they make the point that the speech in languages like Don of the Spirit and the speech in languages as signs initial Baptême of the Holy Spirit are two different things which should not be confused. They believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit describes in the Acts of the Apostles must take place before a person can be used for any the gifts of the Spirit described in the first epistle with the Corinthians.

Neurology

The term was taken again in Neurologie to indicate the whole of the sentences Agrammaticales that certain speaking subjects produce often unconsciously. It differs from the Code-switching since it is about a total déconstruction of the language (of the Sémantisme and Grammaire). It is a form of the linguistic aphasia.

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