Wesley and the Pentecostals
2 Steven J. Land, Pentecostal Spirituality, p. 35.
3 Larry Wood, The Meaning of Pentecost in Early Methodism: Rediscovering John Fletcher as Wesley’s Vindicator and Designated Successor (Scarecrow Press, 2003), p. 9.
4 Ibid, See chapter 5: “Wesley’s Authorized Interpreter and Designated Successor,” pp. 75-94.
5 Wood, p. 10.
6 Wood, p. 68.
7 Vinson Synan, The Holiness Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. E. Eerdmans publishing Co., 1997), p. 15.
8 Henry H. Knight III says that the holiness message and an emphasis on the Holy Spirit are major points of continuity between Phoebe Palmer and Charles Finney and both Wesley and Pentecostals. “From Aldersgate to Azusa: Wesley and the Renewal of Pentecostal Spirituality.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 8 (April, 1996), pp. 82-98.
9 Charles Finney states in his Lectures on Revivals of Religion (Virginia Beach, VA: 700 Club Press, 1978), p. 108.
10 Editor’s Note: For more information about how issues of racism were real in this period of N. American history and how early Pentecostalism reckoned with these issues, see “Across the Lines: Charles Parham’s Contribution to the Inter-Racial Character of Early Pentecostalism” by Eddie L. Hyatt in Pneuma Review 7:4 (Fall 2004).
11 S.E. Parham, The Life of Charles F. Parham: Founder of the Apostolic Faith Movement (Joplin, MO: Hunter Printing Co., 1930), p. 52.
12 Steven Land, Pentecostal Spirituality, p.49.
This article is Chapter 11, “Wesley and the Pentecostals” from Rediscovering John Wesley (Cleveland, TN: Pathway Press, 2004) by Winfield Bevins. Used by permission of the author.
Category: Church History, Summer 2006
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