Holiness and Pentecostal Movements

Since the 1830s, Holiness and Pentecostal movements have had a significant influence on many Christian churches, and they have been a central force in producing what is known today as World Christianity. This book demonstrates the advantages of analyzing them in relation to one another.

The Salvation Army, the Church of the Nazarene, the Wesleyan Church, and the Free Methodist Church identify strongly with the Holiness Movement. The Assemblies of God and the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World identify just as strongly with the Pentecostal Movement. Complicating matters, denominations such as the Church of God (Cleveland), the International Holiness Pentecostal Church, and the Church of God in Christ have harmonized Holiness and Pentecostalism. This book, the first in the new series Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements, examines these complex relationships in a multidisciplinary fashion. Building on previous scholarship, the contributors provide new ways of understanding the relationships, influences, and circulation of ideas among these movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Southeast and East Asia.

In addition to the editors, the contributors are Kimberly Ervin Alexander, Insik Choi, Robert A. Danielson, Chris E. W. Green, Henry H. Knight III, Frank D. Macchia, Luther Oconer, Cheryl J. Sanders, and Daniel Woods.

“This is a book that contains well presented, expertly researched pieces that together make a real and distinct contribution to our appreciation of these different intersections from historical and theological perspectives. Advanced students and scholars working in this field will make it an essential reference point.”—Mark J. Cartledge, The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society

“According to the editors, their objectives were to provide readers with a work that was interdisciplinary and global in scope, and that demonstrates the ways in which these two movements are intertwined. They have delivered on this promise and produced a work that is highly suitable for those undergoing study in Pentecostal or Holiness seminaries.”—Andrea Shan Johnson, Reading Religion

“This is a rich and fascinating collection of essays that offers a variety of historical and theological insights, the fruit of closer academic cooperation between two traditions with deep Wesleyan roots to the benefit of both.”—Tim Woolley, Wesley and Methodist Studies

“A landmark study in not only Holiness and Pentecostal historiography, but the historiography of global Christianity itself.”—William Kostlevy, Wesleyan Theological Journal

“All chapters demonstrate erudite cutting-edge research and conclusions, making this collection an imperative resource. . . .”—Monte Lee Rice, Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity

“The book lays a promising foundation for further scholarship and is a valuable resource for those interested in Holiness and Pentecostal movements.”—Sarah Anne Snyder, Methodist History

“[Holiness and Pentecostal Movements] asserts the primary importance of the Wesleyan tradition to the intertwining of Holiness networks and Pentecostalism.”—Doug Weaver, Church History

“Serves researchers very well as a collection of valuable critical essays.”—Glen O’Brien, The Asbury Journal

“This anthology contains many, sometimes surprising, new insights into the mutual theological dependencies between the sanctification and Pentecostal movements.”—Peter Zimmerling, Church History and Religious Culture

“The essays in this significant, well-researched volume make a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complex relations between Radical Holiness and Pentecostalism from both historical and theological perspectives. They cover a well-selected range of individuals, institutions, and ideas; they address key themes, such as gender, ethnicity, technologies, and mobilities; and they are dependably attentive to social, cultural, and economic contexts. Those working in this field will be grateful for such an authoritative collection.”—John Maiden, The Open University

“The essays within this collection are thematically connected, insightfully written, and contextually responsible. By utilizing various methodologies, new perspectives are brought forth on current and past social issues, and through reconfiguring the interlocutors, new light is shed on standing themes of interest. This interdisciplinary volume signals the importance of this new series, highly recommended for scholars and students.”—Kenneth J. Archer, author of The Gospel Revisited: Towards a Pentecostal Theology of Worship and Witness

David Bundy is Associate Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre. He is the author of Keswick: A Bibliographic Introduction to the Higher Life Movements and Visions of Apostolic Mission: Scandinavian Pentecostal Mission to 1935.

Geordan Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, and Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre. He is the author of John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity and coeditor of the journal Wesley and Methodist Studies.

David Sang-Ehil Han is Dean of the Faculty/Vice President for Academics and Professor of Theology and Pentecostal Spirituality at Pentecostal Theological Seminary. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and Publisher of Aldersgate Press.

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Intertwined History, Theology, and Scholarship

David Bundy, Geordan Hammond, and David Sang-Ehil Han

At the Beginning

1. The Preachers and Their Students: God’s Bible School as a Seedbed of Radical Holiness and Pentecostal Leaders, 1982-1910

David Bundy

2. Pandita Ramabai, the Holiness Movement, and the Mukti Revival of 1905

Robert A. Danielson

3. Alexander A. Boddy, the Pentecostal League of Prayer, and the Wesleyan Roots of British Pentecostalism

Kimberley Ervin Alexander

4. A World Tour of Evangelism: Henry Clay Morrison’s Radical Holiness meets “Global Holiness,” 1909-10

Luther Oconer

Unity and Diversity

5. “Spiritual Railroading”: Trains as Metaphor and Reality in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements, ca. 1880—ca. 1920

Daniel Woods

6. Black Radical Holy Women at the Intersection of Christian Unity and Social Justice

Cheryl J. Sanders

7. Pneumatology as a Basis for Ecumenical Dialogue Between the Korean Methodist, Holiness, and Pentecostal Traditions

Insik Choi

Theological Engagement

8. Baptized in the Spirit and Fire: The Relevance of Spirit Baptism for a Holiness and Pentecostal View of the Atonement

Frank D. Macchia

9. The Presence of the Kingdom: Optimism of Grace in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements

Henry H. Knight III

10. Fulfilling the Full Gospel: The Promise of the Theology of the Cleveland School

Chris E. W. Green

List of Contributors

Index

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History

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Religious Studies & Religion

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