Pentecostalism :: Religion, Informative

PentecostalismThe first "pentecostals" in the modern sense appeared on the scene in 1901 in the city of capital of Kansas, Kansas in a Bible civilise conducted by Charles Fox Parham, a holiness teacher and former Methodist pastor. In spite of controversy over the origins and timing of Parhams emphasis on glossolalia, exclusively historians agree that the movement began during the first days of 1901 just as the world entered the Twentieth Century. The first person to be baptized in the Holy nerve accompanied by speaking in tongues was Agnes Ozman, one of Parhams Bible School students, who spoke in tongues on the very first day of the raw(a) century, January 1, 1901. fit in to J. Roswell Flower, the founding Secretary of the Assemblies of God, Ozmans experience was the "touch felt round the world," an event which " made the Pentecostal Movement of the Twentieth Century."As a result of this Topeka pentecost, Parham formulated the doctrine that tongue was th e "Bible evidence" of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. He also taught that tongue was a supernatural impartation of human languages for the map of world evangelization. Henceforth, he taught, missionaries need non study foreign languages since they would be able to preach in miraculous tongues all over the world. Armed with this new theology, Parham founded a church movement, which he called the "Apostolic Faith" and began a whirlwind revival tour of the American Middle West to promote his exciting new experience. It was not until 1906, however, that Pentecostalism achieved worldwide attention through the Azusa Street revival in