A Pentecostal Season: The Methodists in England and America, Part 2
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Notes
[Editor’s Note: Please see The Supernatural Thread in Methodism for complete footnotes. Dr. Billman has also graciously provided a Bibliography covering all citations in this excerpt.]
[1] Crowder, Ecstasy, 282.
[2] John White, When the Spirit Comes with Power, (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988), 71.
[3] Schmitt, Floods, 133-134.
[4] Crowder, Ecstasy, 284.
[5] Quoted in DeArteaga, Quenching, 28.
[6] As quoted by Dallimore, Whitefield, Vol. 2, 125.
[7] Crowder, Ecstasy, 284-285.
[8] Ibid., 285.
[9] DeArteaga, Quenching, 41.
[10] Francis MacNutt, Overcome By the Spirit, (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 1990), 107.
[11] Taves, Fits, 105
[12] Wigger, Heaven, 115.
[13] Ibid., 112.
[14] John Wigger, “Holy, ‘Knock-‘Em-Down’ Preachers,” Christian History, Issue 45 (Vol. XIV, No. 1), 24.
[15] MacNutt, Overcome, 112.
[16] Wigger, Heaven, 113-114.
[17] Wood, Pentecost, 196.
[18] Crowder, Ecstasy, 286.
[19] Quoted by Scott Kisker, “Martin Boehm, Philip William Otterbein, and the United Brethren in Christ” in Methodist and Pietist, J. Steven O’Malley & Jason E. Vickers, eds., (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2011), 29-30.
[20] Wigger, Heaven, 117.
[21] Lester Ruth, Early Methodist Life and Spirituality, (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2005), 194-195.
[22] Kenneth E. Rowe, “Jacob Albright and the Evangelical Association,” in Methodist and Pietist, J. Steven O’Malley & Jason E. Vickers, eds., (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2011), p. 38-39.
[23] J. Steven O’Malley, “The Theological Heritage of Pietism,” in Methodist and Pietist, J. Steven O’Malley & Jason E. Vickers, eds., (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2011), p. 67-68.
[24] William Naumann, “Doctrine and Theology in the Evangelical Association,” in Methodist and Pietist, J. Steven O’Malley & Jason E. Vickers, eds., (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2011), p. 94.
[25] Jason E. Vickers, “The Confession of Faith: A Theological Commentary,” in Methodist and Pietist, J. Steven O’Malley & Jason E. Vickers, eds., (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2011), p. 128.
[26] Ibid., 134-135.
[27] Wigger, Heaven, 108.
[28] Ibid., 115.
[29] Ibid., 109.
[30] Ibid., 117.
[31] Ruth, Early, 195
[32] Ibid., 171.
[33] Crowder, Ecstasy, 286.
[34] Wigger, Heaven, 120-123
[35] Ibid., 108.
[36] Ibid., 110.
[37] Taves, Fits, 86.
[38] Ruth, Early, 161.
[39] Vinson Synan, The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1971), 21-22.
[40] Wood, Pentecost. 300.
[41] Synan, Holiness, 22.
[42] Ruth, Early, 165-166.
[43] Wesley, Works, I, 364.
[44] Wesley,Works, IV, 139
[45] Ibid., 311.
[46] David Lloyd, in a letter to Adam Clarke, November 7, 1821, quoted in Wood, Pentecost, 5.
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