The Century of the

Holy Spirit

100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901–2001

Vinson Synan

THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS
Nashville

Copyright © 2001 by Vinson Synan

Chapter 15 and Appendix copyright © 2001 by David B. Barrett

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible, copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress

Synan, Vinson

The century of the Holy Spirit: 100 years of Pentecostal and charismatic renewal, 1901-2001

isbn 0-7852-4550-2

To my beautiful wife, Carol Lee,

with whom I have shared forty wonderful years
of the century of the Holy Spirit

Contents

Preface

1. The Pentecostal Century: An Overview

Vinson Synan

2. Pentecostal Roots

Vinson Synan

3. The Azusa Street Revival: The Pentecostal Movement Begins in America

Robert Owens

4. To the Regions Beyond: The Global Expansion of Pentecostalism

Gary B. McGee

5. The Holiness Pentecostal Churches

Vinson Synan

6. The “Finished Work” Pentecostal Churches

Vinson Synan

7. Charismatic Renewal Enters the Mainline Churches

Vinson Synan

8. The “Charismatics”: Renewal in Major Protestant Denominations

Vinson Synan

9. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal

Peter Hocken

10. Spirit-Filled Women

Susan C. Hyatt

11. African-American Pentecostalism in the 20th Century

David Daniels III

12. Hispanic Pentecostalism in the Americas

Pablo A. Deiros and Everett A. Wilson

13. Healers and Televangelists After World War II

David E. Harrell Jr.

14. Streams of Renewal at the End of the Century

Vinson Synan

15. The Worldwide Holy Spirit Renewal

David B. Barrett

Appendix: A Chronology of Renewal in the Holy Spirit

David B. Barrett

Contributors

Color Pictures

Preface

In the midst of the millennial fever that gripped the world in 1999 and 2000, few people realized that the new millennium would actually begin on January 1, 2001. For Christians, this anniversary is special because it marks the 2,000 years of Christian history. But for millions of Pentecostal and charismatic Christians, this anniversary also marks the completion of 100 years of Pentecostal and charismatic renewal.

The title of this book, The Century of the Holy Spirit, summarizes what is generally recognized as the most important religious movement of the entire twentieth century. Beginning with a handful of students in Topeka, Kansas, on New Year’s Day, 1901, Christians around the world have experienced a renewal of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that dwarfs anything seen since the days of the early church. This movement, which now constitutes the second largest family of Christians in the world (after the Roman Catholic Church), is found in practically every nation ...