The Rise of Pentecostalism: Christian History Timeline
The Rise of Pentecostalism
Vinson Synan
April 1, 1998
Holiness Roots
1867 National Holiness Association forms in Vineland, New Jersey 1879 Isaiah Reed forms the largest holiness association in America, the Iowa Holiness Association 1887 A. B. Simpson founds the Christian and Missionary Alliance to promote the Holiness "Fourfold Gospel" 1895 B. H. Irwin teaches a third blessing "baptism of Fire," splitting the Iowa Holiness Association and forming the Iowa Fire-Baptized Holiness Association 1896 Schearer Schoolhouse Fire-Baptized Holiness revival experiences tongues 1897 Charles H. Mason and C.T. Jones form the Church of God in Christ in Lexington, Mississippi 1898 First congregation of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina Pentecostal Birth
1901 Agnes Ozman speaks in tongues in Topeka. Charles Parham calls tongues the "Bible evidence" for baptism in the Spirit 1902 First congregation of the Church of God formed at Camp Creek, North Carolina 1905 William Seymour accepts Pentecostal doctrine from Parham in Houston, Texas 1906 First General Assembly of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1906-1909 Azusa Street Revival; Pentecostalism becomes global under Seymour's leadership 1907 T. B. Barrett opens Pentecostal meetings in Oslo. Begins Pentecostal movements in Scandinavia, England, and Germany 1907 G. B. Cashwell spreads Pentecostalism in the South 1908 John G. Lake begins South African Apostolic Faith Mission 1908 Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) accepts Pentecostalism under A. J. Tomlinson 1909 Luigi Francescon and Giacomo Lombardi begin Italian Pentecostal movements in the U.S., Italy, Argentina, and Brazil 1909 German evangelicals condemn Pentecostals in the "Berlin Declaration" 1909 Florence Crawford founds the Apostolic Faith Church in Portland, Oregon Maturing Movement
1910 W. H. Durham begins "Finished Work" movement in Chicago 1912 Maria Woodworth-Etter becomes a popular Pentecostal preacher in Dallas 1914 The Assemblies of God formed in Hot Springs, Arkansas 1916 The Oneness Movement splits the Assemblies of God 1919 Pentecostal Assemblies of the World incorporated 1923 A. J. Tomlinson forms the Church of God of Prophecy 1927 Aimee Semple McPherson forms International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Los Angeles 1928 Mary Rumsey opens first Pentecostal missions to Korea and Japan 1943 American Pentecostal churches accepted as charter members of the National Association of Evangelicals 1945 Several mergers produce the United Pentecostal Church (Missouri) 1948 Healing crusades begin under William Branham and Oral Roberts World Events
1867 Karl Marx predicts a proletariat takeover in Das Kapital 1877 Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, recording the words "Mary had a little lamb" 1883 Friedrich Nietzsche, in Thus Spake Zarathustra, writes, "I teach you the Superman. Man is something to be surpassed." 1900 Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams, one of the seminal works of psychoanalysis 1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean 1903 Bicycle mechanics Orville and Wilbur Wright fly the first airplane 1905 Albert Einstein begins publishing his theory of relativity 1912 The Titanic sinks, killing 1,500 passengers and crew 1917 Bolshevik troops, led by Vladmir Lenin, take control in Russia 1925 Adolf Hitler pens Mein Kampf (My Struggle) 1926 Television invented in London by John Logie Baird 1927 Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic Ocean alone in his Spirit of St. Louis 1941 Rudolf Bultmann questions biblical history in his New Testament and Mythology 1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Vinson Synan is dean of Regent University's divinity school (in Virginia Beach, Va.) and author of The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century (Eerdmans, 1997). Copyright © 1998 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian History magazine.
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