The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy

by Harold D Hunter (Editor), Cecil M Robeck Jr (Editor)

Overview

In 1906 at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles a revival began that set in motion a global movement that has affected half a billion people. In The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy, twenty writers, representing the international scholarship of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Renewal communities, reflect on the significance of the movement now and for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608991549
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	11/01/2009
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Harold D. Hunter: Director of the IPHC Archives & Research Center. Denominational executive positions, seminary teaching, and ecumenical dialogues have taken him to over 60 countries. Hunter co-edited with Peter Hocken All Together In One Place (Sheffield 1993), co-edited with Cecil M. Robeck Jr., The Suffering Body (Paternoster, 2006), and the recently released Spirit Baptism: A Pentecostal Alternative (Wipf & Stock, 2009). Hunter engages the World Council of Churches, WARC, the NCCCUSA Faith and Order Commission, and ICC.

Cecil M. Robeck, Jr.: Professor of Church History and Ecumenics at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is a primary interpreter of global Pentecostalism to the Vatican, the World Council of Churches, and other Christian organizations. For nine years, he was editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is the author of Prophecy in Carthage: Perpetua, Tertullian, and Cyprian (Pilgrim 1992) and The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement (Nelson, 2006).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors 11

Introduction Harold D. Hunter Cecil M. Robeck 13

Part I The Azusa Street Revival: 1906-1909 27

1 Ordinary Prophet: William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival Gastón Espinosa 29

2 The Role of Women in the Azusa Street Revival Estrelda Alexander 61

3 Pentecostal Healing at the Mission Kimberly Ervin Alexander 79

4 Spiritual Hunger "on the Apostolic Faith Line" Daniel Woods 93

5 From Azusa to Cleveland: The Amazing Journey of G.B. Cashwell and the Spread of Pentecostalism David Roebuck 111

6 "Networks and Niches": The Worldwide Transmission of the Azusa Street Revival David Maxwell 127

7 What Good Can Come From Los Angeles? Changing Perceptions of the North American Pentecostal Origins in Early Western European Pentecostal Periodicals Cornelis van der Laan 141

8 Azusa Missionaries in the Context of the Caste System in India Paulson Pulikottil 161

9 Revivals and the Global Expansion of Pentecostalism After Azusa Street Allan Anderson 175

10 Constructing Different Memories: Recasting the Azusa Street Revival Anthea Butler 193

Part II The Legacy of the Azusa Street Revival 203

11 Signs of Grace in a Graceless World: The Charismatic Structure of the Church in Trinitarian Perspective Frank D. Macchia 205

12 Encountering the Triune God: Spirituality Since the Azusa Street Revival Simon Chan 215

13 Pentecostal Eschatology: What Happened When the Wave Hit the West End of the Ocean Wonsuk Ma 229

14 The Church of God in Christ and the Azusa Street Revival Frederick L. Ware 243

15 The Blessings of Azusa Street and Doornfontein Revivals and Pentecost's Blind Spot Frank Chikane 259

16 A Journey Toward Racial Reconciliation: Race Mixing in the Church of God of Prophecy Harold D. Hunter 277

17 The "Place" of Women in Pentecostal/Charismatic Ministry Since the Azusa Street Revival Pamela Holmes 297

18 After Azusa Street: Identity and Function of Pentecostalisms in the Processes of Social Change Bernardo Campos Morante 317

19 Pentecostalism and Social Transformation Donald E. Miller 335

20 The Azusa Street Revival and the Historic Churches Thomas P. Rausch, S.J. 349

Divine Mandates of the Azusa Street Revival 363