The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition
Charismatic Movements in
the Twentieth Century
Vinson Synan
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.
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First edition 1971
Second edition 1997
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Synan, Vinson.
The Holiness-Pentecostal tradition: Charismatic movements in the twentieth century /
Vinson Synan.—2nd ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Holiness-Pentecostal movement in the United States. 1971.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13 978-0-8028-4103-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Pentecostalism—United States—History—20th century.
2. Holiness churches—United States—History.
3. Pentecostalism—History—20th century.
I. Synan, Vinson. Holiness-Pentecostal movement in the United States.
II. Title.
BR1644.5.U6S86 1997
277.3′082—dc21
97-10579
CIP
Bill Menzies and Horace Ward,
gentlemen scholars and colleagues,
who joined with me in founding
the Society for Pentecostal Studies
at the Pentecostal World Conference
in Dallas, Texas, in 1970
1. The Double Cure (1766–1866)
2. Echoes from the Forest Temple—The National Holiness Association (1867–1894)
5. The American Jerusalem—Azusa Street
7. Missionaries of the One Way Ticket
8. Criticism and Controversy (1906–1920)
9. The African-American Pentecostals
10. The Pentecostals in Society (1901–1960)
11. The Neo-Pentecostal Movement
12. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal
It has been more than a quarter of a century since this book first appeared under the title The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States. For more than twenty-four years, after first being published in 1971, it remained in print without revision. At long last I have revised, enlarged, and renamed the book in an attempt to account for the incredible changes that have occurred in the worldwide church since the book first appeared. The new title, The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century, was chosen with much care. Instead of the word “movement” I have chosen to substitute the word “tradition.” This is because I believe that Pentecostalism has grown beyond a mere passing movement to become a major tradition of Christianity. This word is being used despite the fact that most Pentecostals have disdained the word “tradition” as belonging to the older and colder “established” churches, which did not understand the moving power of the Holy Spirit.
In fact, when I did my first research on Pentecostalism around 1965, there were barely 50,000,000 Pentecostals in the world. Now, as this revision appears, that number has grown to encompass some 217,000,000 “denominational Pentecostals” ...
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About The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth CenturyCalled “a pioneer contribution” by Church History when it was first published in 1971 as The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States, this volume has now been revised and enlarged by Vinson Synan to account for the incredible changes that have occurred in the church world during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Synan brings together the stories of the many movements usually listed as “holiness,” “pentecostal,” or “charismatic,” and shows that there is an identifiable “second blessing” tradition in Christianity that began with the Catholic and Anglican mystics, that was crystallized in the teaching of John Wesley, and that was further perpetuated through the holiness and Keswick movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the appearance of modern Pentecostalism. Synan then chronicles the story of the spread of Pentecostalism around the world after the heady days of the Azusa Street awakening, with special attention given to the beginnings of the movement in those nations where Pentecostalism has become a major religious force. He also examines the rise of various mainline-church charismatic movements that have their roots in Pentecostalism. Because of the explosive growth of the Pentecostal movement in the last half of the century, Pentecostals and Charismatics now constitute the second largest family of Christians in the world after the Roman Catholic Church. “This could well be the major story of Christianity in the twentieth century,” writes Synan. “Pentecostalism has grown beyond a mere passing ‘movement’ … and can now be seen as a major Christian ‘tradition’ alongside the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Reformation Protestant traditions.” The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition will continue to be an important handbook for shaping our understanding of this phenomenon. |
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