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PORTRAITS OF A GENERATION: Early Pentecostal Leaders
Goff, James, Goff
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Paperback. Editor(s): Goff, James R, JR.; Wacker, Gilbert T Rowe Professor of Christian History Grant (Duke University Divinity School Duke University Duke University Divinity School Duke University Divinity School Duke University Divinity School Duke University Divinity School Duke University Divinity School Duke University Divinity School). Num Pages: 430 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCC96. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
A spirit of religious revival blazed across the United States just after 1900. With a focus on Holy Spirit power, early adherents stirred an enthusiastic response, first at a Bible school in Topeka and then in a small mission on Asuza Street in Los Angeles. Almost immediately, the movement spread to Houston, Chicago, and then northeastern urban centers. By the early 1910s the fervor had reached most parts of the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico, and eventually the converts called themselves pentecostals. Today there are pentecostals all over the world. From the beginning the movement was unusually diverse: women ... Read more
A spirit of religious revival blazed across the United States just after 1900. With a focus on Holy Spirit power, early adherents stirred an enthusiastic response, first at a Bible school in Topeka and then in a small mission on Asuza Street in Los Angeles. Almost immediately, the movement spread to Houston, Chicago, and then northeastern urban centers. By the early 1910s the fervor had reached most parts of the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico, and eventually the converts called themselves pentecostals. Today there are pentecostals all over the world. From the beginning the movement was unusually diverse: women ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557287311
SKU
V9781557287311
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About Goff, James, Goff
James R. Goff Jr. is a professor of history at Appalachian State University and Chief Historical Consultant of the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum. He is also the author of Fields White Unto Harvest: Charles F. Parham and the Missionary Origins of Pentecostalism (Arkansas, 1988) and Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel (North Carolina, 2002). ... Read more
Reviews for PORTRAITS OF A GENERATION: Early Pentecostal Leaders
This book fills signficant gaps in the historical account of the early leaders of the Pentecostal movement. The solidy researched and well-written essays serve not only as portraits of the movement's early leaders, but also as a set of windows through which readers can look from different angles at one of the most important and dynamic developments in the religious ... Read more