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As tent revivals are held outdoors, they have attracted people who after hearing the preaching undergo a conversion experience and join a local Christian church. [4] With radio and television playing an increasingly important part in American culture, some preachers such as Oral Roberts , a very successful tent revivalist, made the transition ...
William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was a Holiness Pentecostal preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival, an influential event in the rise of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, particularly Holiness Pentecostalism. He was the second of eight children born in an African-American family to emancipated slaves.
Johannes Tauler German Dominican (1300–1361), his 80 sermons in German were read for centuries after his death Oliver Maillard , French Franciscan (c.1430–1502) Savonarola Italian Dominican (1452–1498) famous for the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence , finally executed for heresy
The Fire-Baptized Holiness Association also embraced Pentecostalism around the same time, taking the line that the baptism in the Holy Spirit was the "baptism of fire" that it had been seeking. Given the similarities in doctrine and geographic reach with the Pentecostal Holiness Church, the two groups began talks on a merger.
Primitive Baptists – also known as Regular Baptists, Old School Baptists, Foot Washing Baptists, or, derisively, Hard Shell Baptists [2] – are conservative Baptists adhering to a degree of Calvinist beliefs who coalesced out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 19th century over the appropriateness of mission boards, tract societies, and temperance societies.
Jack Coe (March 11, 1918 – December 16, 1956) was an American Pentecostal evangelist, nicknamed "the man of reckless faith". He was one of the first faith healers in the United States with a touring tent ministry after World War II.
Bono of the band U2 mentions The Old-Time Gospel Hour in the 1988 live version of the song "Bullet the Blue Sky" on the album Rattle and Hum.Toward the end of the song, there is a spoken section where he says "...and I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues, and a preacher on the Old-Time Gospel Hour stealing money from the sick and the old.
They started their own church, first preaching in supporters' homes and eventually in a former gin house. Jones is the author of over 1000 hymns . Some of his known hymns which are still sung around the world are Deeper, Deeper ; I Will Make the Darkness Light ; Come Unto Me ; Where Shall I Be ; I'm Happy With Jesus Alone ; and Jesus Only .