THE RISE OF CHARISMATIC CHRISTIANITY 1. Pentecostalism has its roots in early Methodism of the eighteenth century and the revivalism of Charles G. Finney in the first half of the nineteenth century “Eighteenth-century Methodism,” as Frederick Dale Bruner correctly points out, “is the mother of the nineteenth-century American holiness movement which, in turn, bore twentieth-century Pentecostalism.”5 John Wesley taught a definite second work of grace distinct from the remission of sins.6 By laying special
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