The American Holiness Movement

The American Holiness Movement
Author: Darrell Poeppelmeyer
Publisher: Nazarene Theology Foundation
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2023-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Secular historians tend to neglect the religious aspects of American history. This book examines the great revivals which swept America during the nineteenth century. Most modern Protestant denominations owe their existence in American due to these revivals.

The Demise of the American Holiness Movement

The Demise of the American Holiness Movement
Author: Darius Salter
Publisher: First Fruits Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Holiness churches
ISBN: 9781621719403

Introduction: Born in 1947, I have lived in two worlds. The first world was pre-cell phone, pre- air conditioner, pre-computer, pre-fast food, pre-microwave, pre-travel, pre-mobility, pre-Walmart, pre-secondary education, pre-secularism, pre-mall, pre-middle class, and pre-consolidation. Most of these are self-evident for anyone my age and perhaps several of them are relevant only to me or the individuals raised in my community or similar communities. For instance, until I was sixteen years old I had never been more than 175 miles west of the small fishing village where I grew up on the coast of North Carolina. Until that time, I would not have been out of the state, except for the fact that as a child of a Navy serviceman, I lived my first seven years in Norfolk, Virginia

Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement

Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement
Author: William Kostlevy
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2009-08-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0810863189

It is much harder to define a religious movement than it is to define a religion or denomination. That applies especially when that movement almost defies definition as the Holiness Movement does. The Holiness Movement is a Methodist religious renewal movement that has over 12 million adherents worldwide. Perhaps the most familiar public manifestation of the holiness movement has been its urban holiness missions, and the Salvation Army_noted for its service ministries among poor and people suffering the dislocations that accompany war and disaster_is the most notable example. In the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement, important new developments in the Holiness Movement_such as the widely discussed 'Holiness Manifesto'_are thoroughly discussed, and the content has also been expanded to include information on figures from Asia and Africa to reflect the continued growth of the Holiness Movement. With a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries, this reference has information that cannot be found elsewhere.

A Holiness Hermeneutic

A Holiness Hermeneutic
Author: Stephen J. Lennox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781532634444

America in the late nineteenth century was undergoing enormous societal shifts. Immigration and urbanization were changing the face of the country. New discoveries and new perspectives on old verities stretched its mind and stirred its soul. The recently concluded Civil War left America bloodied, its self-confidence bruised, and its capacity for controversy weakened. American churches responded to these upheavals in different ways with long-lasting consequences. The reaction of one small branch of American Protestantism rooted in the broader stream of Methodism opens a window into these troubled times. This book explores how the American holiness movement navigated the societal maelstrom and the role the Bible played in charting its course. The holiness movement's response illustrates the interaction between the Bible and culture. It sheds light on the development of the movement's younger cousin, Pentecostalism. It also adds texture to the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, an important struggle that marked the early decades of the twentieth century and continues to shape America today.

Cities of Zion

Cities of Zion
Author: Samuel Avery-Quinn
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2019-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1498576559

This study examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first century. It analyzes middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape.

African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement

African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement
Author: Sherry S. DuPree
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 113573710X

First Published in 1996. Those of us who aspire to know about the black church in the African-American experience are never satisfied. We know so much more about the Christian and church life of black Americans than we did even a dozen years ago, but all the recent discoveries whet our insatiable appetites to know it all. That goal will never be attained, of course, but there do remain many conquerable worlds. Sherry Sherrod DuPree set her mind to conquering one of those worlds. She has persisted, with the results detailed here. A huge number of items are available to inform us about Holiness, Pentecostal, and Charismatic congregations and organizations in the African-American Christian community.

Perfectionist Persuasion

Perfectionist Persuasion
Author: Charles Edwin Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1974
Genre: Holiness churches
ISBN: 0810843218

A social profile of the National Holiness Movement within American Methodism for the period 1867-1936. Provides fifty historical photos and extensive statistical tables and charts. Cloth edition previously published 1974. Paperback edition available March 2002.

Restorationism in the Holiness Movement in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Restorationism in the Holiness Movement in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Author: Steven L. Ware
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

In her 1917 sermon Lost and Restored, Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson claimed that God had given her a vision showing the fall of the Christian Church from its original purity and the gradual restoration of that original purity in successive stages. Using the prophetic images of agricultural blight and recovery in Joel chapter two, she detailed the fall of the church after the apostolic age to its complete corruption in the Middle Ages. Then, beginning with the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, she described the church's gradual restoration to purity and power with the influence of the Reformers, continuing through Wesley and the holiness movement, and culminating with the Pentecostal movement of her own lifetime.

The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Melvin Easterday Dieter
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0810831554

This new edition expands and updates the only general interpretation of the rise and influence of perfectionist revivalism in America and Europe. Fifteen years of expanding research on the holiness movement reinforce this volume's continuing seminal value to cultural and social research. The new concluding essay describes the history of the revival through the turn of the century. This book expands our understanding of the fragmentation and coalescence of American religion by analyzing the factors which created numerous new holiness denominations. Dieter also outlines the historical and theological factors that separate this largely Wesleyan and Methodist wing of evangelicalism from the fundamentalism of Reformed evangelicals. The identification of such nuances will prove especially helpful to those struggling with the extreme diversity in American religion, especially in evangelicalism. For students and scholars of American religious movements as well as students of the feminist, temperance, abolitionist, and populist movements in American society.