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Pentecostalism: Purity or Peril?Softcover O. Talmadge Spence A seqel to Rome: Crusade or Crucible?, documenting the origin of the historic Pentacostal movement from Methodist and Baptistic backgrounds, explaining the early doctrines of the Pentacostalist.
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Pentecostalism has been a growing force in American Christianity throughout the twentieth century. Many view the movement as monolithic and consider the modern Charismatic movement to be the epitome of Pentecostalism. In this work, however, Dr. Spence brings a fresh approach to the history of Pentecostalism as he traces the several diverse strands of Pentecostal history from their origins to their present manifestations. With keen insight Dr. Spence discusses not only the history but also the doctrines of Pentecostalism. In outlining the true course of Pentecostal history and practice, the author dispels many myths about the movement. Dr. Spence writes authoritatively and fairly about men and movements that he has known firsthand.



Table of Contents
  Introduction
  Sources of Pentecostal History
  Seven Historical Beginnings
  Rewriting Pentecostal History
  Application of Scripture to the Time
1. Pilgrim-Puritan Influences of Our Time
  Puritans and Pilgrims
  Types of Pilgrims
  Early Pentecostalists and Fundamentalists
  Holmes from Northfield
  Bartleman from Moody Institute
2. Pentecostal Origins and Emphases
  Pentecostal Origins in Methodism
  The Topeka-Azusa Street Presupposition
  The Moody-Torrey Presupposition
  The Du Plessis Presupposition
  The Irving Presupposition
  The Darby Presupposition
  The Irving-Darby Presupposition
  The Evan Roberts Involvement
3. Diversities of Directions
  The Neo-Personalities of Pentecostalism
  The Neo-Movements of Pentecostalism
  Pentecostal Periods
  Modern Pentecostal Personalities
4. The Question of the Glossolalia
  The Gifts of the Spirit and Christians
  The Gifts of the Pentecostalists
  A Remnant Interpretation View
  The Stammering Tongue
  The Glossolalia and Linguistics
  Prophecy and Glossolalia
5. Seven Pentecostal Movements of the Third Generation
  The Early and Third-Generation Pentecostalist
  The Seven Modern Movements and the Remnant
6. The Third-Generation Pentecostalism: Puritan or Pilgrim?
  The Need of Biblical Controversy
  The Sects of History
  Scriptural Separation
  The New Orleans Charismatic Conference of 1987
  General Observations on the Conference
7. The Modern Pentecostal Amalgam
  A Satanic Generation Would Come
  God's Remnant Would Be Present
  There Remains the Peculiar Predicament
  Facing Fundamentalism
  Names in Fundamentalism
  An Update on Fundamentalism
  Prophesyings and the Word of Prophecy