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Author
Publisher
Hendrickson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
One of the premier interpreters of Pentecostalism, Walter J. Hollenweger has written what is in many ways a sequel to his magisterial The Pentecostals (1972). "Pentecostalism is the fastest growing and most vital Christian movement on the globe today. What great news that the esteemed elder statesman of Pentecostal studies has now given us this comprehensive and absorbing account of how it started and why it is growing." -Harvey Cox, Harvard University....
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Lewi's Journey is a fictional account of the two men who built the Swedish Pentecostal movement from a renegade congregation based in a crumbling church house and ridiculed for paying credence to such practices as speaking in tongues, spirit baptism, and left-wing politics, into the third largest religious community within Christendom, claiming at its peak a membership of more than 250 million souls worldwide. A humble preacher and failed writer...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of the popular twentieth-century preacher and public figure Oral Roberts"--
"In 1946, God gave Oral Roberts a new Buick. And this just one of many miracles the young, broke preacher learned to expect, as Oral Roberts would go on to build an evangelistic ministry worth millions of dollars, a medical complex, and a university. How do we interpret the life of a man who seemed to combine rampant consumerist excess with a sincere devotion...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"In this lively history of the rise of pentecostalism in the United States, Grant Wacker gives an in-depth account of the beliefs and religious practices of pentecostal churches as well as an engaging picture of the way these played out in daily life."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Word Pub
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Hank Hanegraaff documents the danger of looking for God in all the wrong places and goes behind the scenes into the wildly popular and bizarre world of contemporary revivalism. Hanegraaff masterfully exposes the stark contrast between these deeds of the flesh and a genuine work of the Spirit by contrasting modern "revivals" with the scriptural examples of God's movement among His people.
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"On October 15, 1974, Johnny Carson welcomed his next guest on The Tonight Show with these words: "I imagine there are very few people who are not aware of Kathryn Kuhlman. She probably, along with Billy Graham, is one of the best-known ministers or preachers in the country." But while many people today recognize Billy Graham, not many remember Kathryn Kuhlman (1907-1976), who preached faith and miracles to countless people over the fifty-five years...
