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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...

Holy Living and Dying, and Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ, which he read in 1725. The most influential works, however, were William Law’s Treatise on Christian Perfection and Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. Reading Serious Call in 1726, Wesley adopted much of Law’s thought as his own. In this book Law called for a holiness of life in the laity which the church for centuries had reserved only for the monastics and clergy. “For there is no reason,” wrote Law, “why you should think the
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