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Out of the Flames by the Goldstones
Pulmonary circulation, heresy, and John Calvin make for an intriguing trio of historical companions. Still, these three elements all played a role in the life and death of Michael Servetus, who—lashed to the inquisitor's pyre—“was slowly roasted, agonizingly conscious...
Norming the Abnormal by Aaron T. Friesen
The doctrine of initial evidence, a dogma oft associated with the early theological approaches to Spirit Baptism by Charles Parham, is a doctrine that has historically met with a diverse range of reactions and concerns (positive and negative) over the past century....
William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism by Gaston Espinosa
The retelling of the modern Pentecostal movement seldom emphasizes the impact of William Joseph Seymour enough. As a one-eyed Black man in the early 1900s, Seymour offered a deeply divided society an eschatological view of the kingdom that struck at the very...
Pentecostal Aspects of Early 16th-Century Anabaptism
Tucked away in the 16th century lies a seldom-discussed phenomenon that worked its way through—and out from—the reforms of Luther and Zwingli. In his academic work, Pentecostal Aspects of Early Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism, Charles Hannon Byrd II undertakes the...