In 1906, William J. Seymour (1870-1922) preached Pentecostal
revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and
other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million
people around the world. Gaston Espinosa provides new insight into
the life and ministry of Seymour, the Azusa Street revival, and
Seymour's influence on global Pentecostal origins. After defining
key terms and concepts, he surveys the changing interpretations of
Seymour over the past 100 years, critically engages them in a
biography, and then provides an unparalleled collection of primary
sources, all a single volume. He pays particular attention to race
relations, Seymour's paradigmatic global influence from 1906 to
1912, and the break between Seymour and Charles Parham, another
founder of Pentecostalism. Espinosa's fragmentation thesis argues
that the Pentecostal propensity to invoke direct unmediated
experiences with the Holy Spirit empowers ordinary people to break
the bottle of denominationalism and to rapidly indigenize and
spread their message.
The 104 primary sources include all of Seymour's extant writings
in full and without alteration and some of Parham's theological,
social, and racial writings, which help explain why the two parted
company. To capture the revival's diversity and global influence,
this book includes Black, Latino, Swedish, and Irish testimonies,
along with those of missionaries and leaders who spread Seymour's
vision of Pentecostalism globally.
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