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The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901–2001 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Details the miraculous story of Pentecostal/Charismatic growth—in the U.S. and around the world; five chapters by the premier Pentecostal historian, Vinson Synan. Additional contributions by leading Pentecostal/Charismatic authorities—David Barrett, David Daniels, David Edwin Harrell Jr., Peter Hocken, Sue Hyatt, Gary McGee, and Ted Olsen. Analyzes the role of all major streams, including...

■ 1 ■ The Pentecostal Century: An Overview Vinson Synan ON JANUARY 1, 1901, a young woman named Agnes Ozman was baptized in the Holy Spirit at a small Bible school in Topeka, Kansas. A student of former Methodist pastor and holiness teacher Charles Fox Parham, Ozman received a startling manifestation of the gift of tongues and became, in effect, the first Pentecostal of the 20th century. “I laid my hands upon her and prayed,” Parham later recalled of the event. “I had scarcely completed three dozen
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