Source Blessed, a History of the American Prosperity Gospel (Kate Bowler, Oxford University Press)Kate Bowler
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
The founding site of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, organized by Aimee Semple McPherson in 1927 within the wider Pentecostal movement.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Apocalyptic and eschatological revelation is received as canonical and doctrinally significant across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Most Pentecostal bodies are Arminian, holding that the offer of salvation is free to all and may be accepted or refused, which fits the altar call and the summons to decide that mark their worship.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The 1906 revival from which the modern Pentecostal movement is usually dated.
Source The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal MovementCecil M. Robeck Jr.
Baptism in the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking in tongues, is the tradition's defining and namesake doctrine, traced to the Azusa Street revival of 1906.
Source The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal MovementCecil M. Robeck Jr.
Pentecostalism began with the claim that a baptism in the Spirit follows conversion as a distinct experience, and classical Pentecostal bodies take speaking in tongues as its initial evidence.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Pentecostals baptise on profession of faith, usually by immersion, and distinguish this water baptism sharply from the later baptism in the Spirit that gives the movement its name.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Pentecostal bodies affirm Scripture to be without error while also expecting the Spirit to speak in prophecy and tongues, holding that such utterance must always be tested against the written word.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Pentecostalism inherited entire sanctification from the Holiness movement, and its earliest bodies taught three works of grace, though many later Pentecostal churches reduced these to two.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Pentecostalism exists to assert that the gifts of tongues, prophecy and healing did not cease with the apostles, the claim that separates it from the cessationist position of much of Protestantism.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The miraculous gifts of the Spirit, prophecy, healing and tongues among them, are held to continue in the church today rather than to have ceased with the apostles.
Source The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal MovementCecil M. Robeck Jr.
The biblical covenant tradition, old and new, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Creation ex nihilo is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Pentecostal practice has its own form of ecstatic dance with its own rules about who dances and when.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The concept of heresy as a formally rejected teaching is operative in this tradition's own doctrinal and disciplinary system.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Hillsong Church (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
The Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The hypostatic union of two natures in one person of Christ is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.
Source The Definition of Faith of the Council of ChalcedonCouncil of Chalcedonthe holders' own account
The Incarnation, God the Son taking human nature, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.
Source The Definition of Faith of the Council of ChalcedonCouncil of Chalcedonthe holders' own account
Source Jesus Camp (2006 documentary) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Jim Bakker (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Pentecostals hold justification by faith alone and place it at the start of a sequence, with sanctification and baptism in the Spirit following as further works of grace in the believer.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
A non-denominational congregation identifying within the Pentecostal and Word of Faith tradition, founded by John Osteen in 1959.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The Logos Christology of John's Gospel prologue is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Twenty-seven-book New Testament canon, shared across Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant traditions alike, including this tradition.
Source The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and AuthorityLee Martin McDonald
God's omnipotence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
God's omnipresence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
God's omniscience is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Oral Roberts (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The day the movement takes its name from, read as the pattern for the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
Source Praise, an Inside Look at TBN's Original Empowering Program (Trinity Broadcasting Network)
Old and New Testament prophecy is affirmed as a mode of divine revelation across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsJohn Bowker (ed.)
Not a formal Pentecostal denominational teaching, but overwhelmingly practiced and broadcast within Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity.
Source Blessed, a History of the American Prosperity Gospel (Kate Bowler, Oxford University Press)Kate Bowler
Source Jim Bakker (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Redemption through Christ's sacrifice is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
The bodily resurrection of the dead is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Salvation through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though the mechanism of justification is debated separately.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Pentecostals preach salvation as a free gift received in a moment of personal decision, and expect that gift to be confirmed by an experience of the Spirit's power in the believer's life.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Pentecostals hold Scripture as the final authority while allowing that the Spirit still speaks, and resolve the tension by subjecting every prophecy and impression to the judgement of the Bible.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Classical Pentecostal statements of faith set justification by faith as the first work of grace, before the sanctification and Spirit baptism that follow it.
Scripture is held as the sufficient rule of faith. The continuing gifts affirmed alongside it are read as confirming what is already written rather than adding to it.
Christ as the Son of God is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Jim Bakker (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Most Pentecostal bodies confess the Trinity, though the movement divided early over the question and the Oneness churches that reject it remain a substantial minority within Pentecostalism.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The Kingdom of God, present and coming, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
A final judgment at Christ's return is held and is a standing theme of preaching in this movement.
The Spirit is held to be poured out on all flesh, sons and daughters alike, which is why ministry here has never been confined to an ordained order.
Pentecostals confess the bodily resurrection of Christ and connect it to the power they expect in the present, since the same Spirit who raised him is held to work healing and gifts today.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The virgin birth of Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The New Testament, Gospel of MatthewAnonymous
The problem of evil is a live theological question this tradition addresses within classical theism.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
God's transcendence and immanence are affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source The Story of TBN, 50 Years in the Making (Trinity Broadcasting Network)Trinity Broadcasting Network
Source Kenneth E. Hagin (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors