The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy

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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.

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• Published by: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Published: 01 November 2009
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• EAN13: 9781725227248
• Language: English
• Document size: 6 MB

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Wipf and Stock Publishers 199 W 8th Ave, Suite 3 Eugene, OR 97401 Book Editor: Wanda Griffith The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy Editorial Assistant: Tammy Hatfield By Hunter, Harold D., and Robeck, Jr., Cecil M. Copyright©200 C 6 o b p y y H E un d t it er o , rs H : arold Es D t . h , e a r nd M R et o a b x e a c s k, Jr., Cecil M. ISBN 13: 978-1-60899-154-9 Jessica Sirbaugh Publication date 10/23/2009 Previously published by Pathway Press, 2006

ISBN: 1-59684-156-7 Copyright © 2006 by Pathway Press Cleveland, Tennessee 37311 All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America

Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Robert E. Fisher

List of Contributors

Contents

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Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harold D. Hunter and Cecil M. Robeck Jr.

Part I: The Azusa Street Revival: 1906-1909

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

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

3.Pentecostal Healing at the Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimberly Ervin Alexander

4.Spiritual Hunger “on the Apostolic Faith Line”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Woods

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

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

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

8.Azusa Missionaries in the Context of the Caste System in India161. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paulson Pulikottil

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

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

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 Perspective205. . . . . . . . . . . Frank D. Macchia

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

13.Pentecostal Eschatology: What Happened When the Wave Hit the West End of the Ocean229. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wonsuk Ma

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

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

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

17.The “Place” of Women in Pentecostal/Charismatic Ministry Since the Azusa Street Revival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pamela Holmes

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

19.Pentecostalism and Social Transformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donald E. Miller

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

Divine Mandates of the Azusa Street Revival

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