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The waves of successive seasons of revival blessing throughout church history have left recurring high-water marks. These signs of the Holy Spirit’s surgings across the Earth and throughout time have, as a rule, been the result of God’s signal use of anointed men, whose leadership not only was the spearhead making a holy penetration in their world, but whose name became the designation of that revival era. Accordingly we note the strata of church history by the mention of names, such as Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Knox, Huss, Wesley, Finney, and Moody.

But with the opening of the twentieth century, from out of the wellsprings of the holiness tradition, a revival broke forth, which is distinctive in two ways. First, the wave of renewal it gave rise to in the church internationally has not receded; rather, it has continued to roll forward and to engulf leaders and laity in every historic tradition and contemporary circle of Christianity. Second, this revival has not been characterized by the leadership of any primary personality to set its agenda or establish its style. One historian has called the Pentecostal-Charismatic revival of this century “a movement without a man,” thereby noting the phenomenon that its broadening tide of influence seems linked to this fact. No one can proscribe the movement’s boundaries, none can inscribe his name upon it, and who can describe it in any other way than by Peter’s words at Pentecost: “This is ...

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