This was not surprising since they all looked alike, preached the same message, practised divine healing and fostered various ecstatic phenomena.
The second was a focus on joyous expression of faith, including singing, dancing, and ecstatic prayer.
It was only when they encountered hostility from mainline clergy, who were threatened by ecstatic phenomena, that they began to form their own organization.
The generally ecstatic reactions should not really surprise us.
He would then hurl the rock on the platform with a loud thump and break into ecstatic singing to show the joy of forgiveness.
The tide of ecstatic cries had a mysterious depth to it, a resilient abundance.
These are bound to be new grandparents, in many cases still in early stages of ecstatic bonding.
And their encouragement of ecstatic subjectivity clashed with the state's desire for a disciplined subject.
