Pentecostalism

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This source names Pentecostalism directly: "Los Angeles became the unlikely birthplace of modern Pentecostalism at the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, and the state has since incubated an unusual share of new religious movements, from the..."

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This source names Pentecostalism directly: "Only, or Oneness, movement within Pentecostalism."

This source names Pentecostals directly: "An annual Easter pageant staged by the Pentecostals of Alexandria, a United Pentecostal Church International congregation in Alexandria, Louisiana, dramatizing the life, death and resurrection of..."

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This source names Pentecostalism directly: "organization's survey work on global Pentecostalism."

This source names Pentecostals directly: "Bill Clinton on April 8, 2000, at the Pentecostals of Alexandria church in Alexandria, Louisiana, following a performance of the church's own annual Messiah pageant."

This source names Pentecostalism directly: "Romani Pentecostalism: Gypsies and Charismatic Christianity, edited by David Thurfjell and Adrian Marsh, Peter Lang, 2014, is a scholarly anthology confirmed to include a chapter by Regis Laurent..."

This source names Pentecostals directly: "God Is One: The Story of the Oneness Pentecostals (1999) and Early Interracial Oneness Pentecostalism: G."

This source names Pentecostalism directly: "Seymour, is commonly regarded as the beginning of modern Pentecostalism, though the movement's own momentum at that specific site had faded by 1913 to 1915."

This source names Pentecostalism directly: "Wikipedia's article on Pentecostalism, a continuously edited tertiary source with no fixed publication year, accessed 2026-08-20."

This source names Pentecostalism directly: "Anderson is a scholar of global Pentecostalism, and this University of South Africa Press book is his academic study of the African Initiated Churches of southern Africa, including the Zion..."

A Protestant family.

Pentecostal denominations, arising outside and independent of Roman Catholic structure, do not recognize papal primacy.

Classical Pentecostalism generally holds the Lord's Supper as a memorial ordinance rather than affirming transubstantiation or a sacramental Real Presence.

The memorial view, inherited with the wider evangelical settlement.

Pentecostal practice carried into the historic churches rather than out of them, from the 1960s.

Word of Faith teaching descends from Pentecostal and charismatic revivalism.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 1 Esdras, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 2 Esdras, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 3 Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 4 Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Additions to Daniel, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Additions to Esther, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Baruch, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Judith, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Tobit, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Books of the Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Letter of Jeremiah, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Prayer of Manasseh, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Psalm 151, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Wisdom of Sirach, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Wisdom of Solomon, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

Shouted by the congregation whenever it will rather than sung at an appointed place in a rite, and never suppressed for a season, so the word does the opposite work here from the one it does in a liturgical church.

Atonement for sin through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Christian eschatology, the doctrine of last things, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though particulars vary.

Dispensational premillennialism, carried into the movement with its nineteenth century inheritance.

The revival that began in a converted building on Azusa Street in Los Angeles in 1906 is where the modern Pentecostal movement is generally dated from.

Pentecostal practice includes deliverance, the naming and casting out of spirits, which makes demonology a working discipline rather than a doctrine held at a distance.

The Azusa Street revival and the Black gospel tradition grew up alongside each other, and the music of Pentecostal worship is largely gospel.

The pastor leads the congregation and is expected to exercise the gifts of the Spirit as well as to preach.

The founding site of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, organized by Aimee Semple McPherson in 1927 within the wider Pentecostal movement.

Apocalyptic and eschatological revelation is received as canonical and doctrinally significant across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

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.

The 1906 revival from which the modern Pentecostal movement is usually dated.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The biblical covenant tradition, old and new, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Creation ex nihilo is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Pentecostal practice has its own form of ecstatic dance with its own rules about who dances and when.

The concept of heresy as a formally rejected teaching is operative in this tradition's own doctrinal and disciplinary system.

The Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The hypostatic union of two natures in one person of Christ is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.

The Incarnation, God the Son taking human nature, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.

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.

A non-denominational congregation identifying within the Pentecostal and Word of Faith tradition, founded by John Osteen in 1959.

The Logos Christology of John's Gospel prologue is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Twenty-seven-book New Testament canon, shared across Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant traditions alike, including this tradition.

God's omnipotence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

God's omnipresence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

God's omniscience is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

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.

Old and New Testament prophecy is affirmed as a mode of divine revelation across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Not a formal Pentecostal denominational teaching, but overwhelmingly practiced and broadcast within Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity.

Redemption through Christ's sacrifice is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The bodily resurrection of the dead is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Salvation through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though the mechanism of justification is debated separately.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Kingdom of God, present and coming, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

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.

The virgin birth of Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The problem of evil is a live theological question this tradition addresses within classical theism.

God's transcendence and immanence are affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The Arminian position, inherited through the Wesleyan and Holiness stream.

Becky Fischer's own ministry and the camp's emphasis on prophetic gifts and speaking in tongues are charismatic Pentecostal practice specifically, not evangelicalism in general.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Pentecostal history between the first Pentecostal World Conference convening in Zurich in 1947 and the World Pentecostal Assemblies of God Fellowship forming in Indianapolis in 1989, both already recorded here: David Yonggi Cho and Choi Ja-shil's founding of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul on 18 May 1958, which grew into the world's largest single congregation.

Adds a milestone in Pentecostal history between Yoido Full Gospel Church's 1958 founding in Seoul and the World Pentecostal Assemblies of God Fellowship's 1989 founding in Indianapolis, both already recorded here: Dennis Bennett's 3 April 1960 announcement at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Van Nuys, the event historians mark as the beginning of the charismatic movement's spread into mainline Protestantism.

The aggregate scale the tradition's four existing individual hop events do not by themselves state; this summarizes what they add up to rather than repeating them.

Closes a 20-year gap since 2006's Pentecostalism Grows Into a Global Christian Movement, the most recent event already on Pentecostalism's map, with the first papal visit to a Pentecostal church and a formal apology naming a specific historical persecution.

Closes a three year gap since 2022's twenty sixth conference in Seoul, the fellowship's own sequence returning to a city it last hosted in 1964.

Adds a milestone in Pentecostal history between the General Council splitting Pentecostalism over the Trinity in 1916 and the first Pentecostal World Conference convening in Zurich in 1947, both already recorded here: the Assemblies of God's 1943 vote to affiliate with the newly formed National Association of Evangelicals, ending Pentecostalism's isolation from mainstream American evangelicalism.

Adds a milestone in Pentecostalism's spread beyond Protestant churches between Dennis Bennett sparking the charismatic movement at St. Mark's, Van Nuys in 1960 and the World Pentecostal Assemblies of God Fellowship forming in Indianapolis in 1989, both already recorded here: the Duquesne Weekend launching the Catholic Charismatic Renewal at a student retreat near Pittsburgh, 17 to 19 February 1967.

Adds a specific, dated institutional milestone between the General Council's 1916 split over the Trinity and Pentecostalism's growth into a global movement by 2006 already recorded here: the movement's own 1947 gathering of leaders at Zurich, the first Pentecostal World Conference, which began the pattern of triennial global meetings still continuing today.

The internal division this tradition's own entity description already names as a 1916 schism, sitting on this atlas's map for the first time and matching how the map already records Methodism's own 1844 slavery split.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in North American Pentecostal institutional history between the first Pentecostal World Conference at Zurich in 1947 and Pentecostalism's global growth recorded in 2006, both already recorded here: the Memphis Miracle's 1994 dissolution of the all white Pentecostal Fellowship of North America and its replacement by the racially reconciled Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America.

Closes a 12 year gap since 2014's Pope Francis Becomes the First Pope to Visit a Pentecostal Church, the most recent event already on Pentecostalism's map, with the Fellowship's own twenty fifth triennial World Conference.

Closes a 7 year gap since 2019's The Pentecostal World Fellowship Convenes the 25th Pentecostal World Conference in Calgary, the most recent event already on Pentecostalism's map, with the fellowship's own triennial conference returning to the city that hosted its tenth conference in 1973.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Pentecostalism's history between the first Pentecostal World Conference convening at Zurich in 1947 and the Memphis Miracle founding the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America in 1994, both already recorded here: the 15 August 1989 founding of the World Pentecostal Assemblies of God Fellowship at the Decade of Harvest Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, coordinating the national churches descended from the 1914 Hot Springs Assemblies of God on equal standing rather than governing them.