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The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

Called “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...

ideals to which Emerson and Henry David Thoreau aspired on a highly sophisticated level, plain men of the time sought at a Methodist mourners’ bench or class meeting.” It was a kind of “evangelical transcendentalism” which thrived in the idealism of a young and growing America. By 1856 holiness had become so popular that Jesse T. Peck’s book, The Central Idea of Christianity, seemed to express the feeling of a large segment of American Protestantism.39 This crusade
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