Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement: (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series)

Emerging as a spiritual renewal movement in Antebellum America with ties to Methodism and the reform ethos of the era, it grew rapidly and spread internationally during the last three decades of the 19th century. Women including the increasingly well-known Phoebe Palmer were central actors in the Movement and from its origins Blacks were prominent in all aspects of the Movement. Although its most familiar expression is found in the Salvation Army, the movement established a thriving international network of periodicals, camp meetings, rescue missions, and congregations birthing new denominations such as the Church of God (Anderson), the Church of the Nazarene, and the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church while continuing to profoundly shape older Protestant denominations. In the process playing a crucial role emergence of Pentecostalism and even shaping the piety of popular evangelicalism. Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Holiness Movement. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Holiness Movement.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Chronology Introduction The Dictionary Bibliography About the Author

About the Author :
William C. Kostlevy holds degrees from Asbury University, Marquette University, and the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D.). He is the author of Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America William (Oxford, 2010). He has served as archivist and special collections librarian for Asbury Theological Seminary and was the Director of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives. He is a fellow of the Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Groups at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. Gari-Anne Patzwald is an independent scholar, archivist and freelance writer and editor. Wallace Thornton, Jr. holds degrees from the University of Kentucky, God’s Bible School and College, and Cincinnati Bible Seminary. He is an independent scholar and author of Radical Righteousness: Personal Ethics and the Development of the Holiness Movement (1998) and When the Fire Fell: Martin Wells Knapp’s Vision of Pentecost and the Beginnings of God’s Bible School (2014). He was co-editor of The Radical Holine