The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy - Paperback

by Harold D. Hunter (Editor), Cecil M. Jr. Robeck (Editor)

In 1906 at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles a revival began that set in motion a global movement that has affected half a billion people. In The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy, twenty writers, representing the international scholarship of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Renewal communities, reflect on the significance of the movement now and for the future.

Author Biography

Harold D. Hunter: Director of the IPHC Archives & Research Center. Denominational executive positions, seminary teaching, and ecumenical dialogues have taken him to over 60 countries. Hunter co-edited with Peter Hocken All Together In One Place (Sheffield 1993), co-edited with Cecil M. Robeck Jr., The Suffering Body (Paternoster, 2006), and the recently released Spirit Baptism: A Pentecostal Alternative (Wipf & Stock, 2009). Hunter engages the World Council of Churches, WARC, the NCCCUSA Faith and Order Commission, and ICC.

Cecil M. Robeck, Jr.: Professor of Church History and Ecumenics at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is a primary interpreter of global Pentecostalism to the Vatican, the World Council of Churches, and other Christian organizations. For nine years, he was editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is the author of Prophecy in Carthage: Perpetua, Tertullian, and Cyprian (Pilgrim 1992) and The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement (Nelson, 2006).