History of Pentecostalism

History & overview · every faith gets one

The Spirit did not retire in the first century.

The fastest-growing Christian movement: the gifts of the Spirit — tongues, healing, prophecy — as present-tense realities for every believer. Born in a Los Angeles revival, now over half a billion strong.

The founding

Its founding is bound to William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street revival — 1906 CE.

What it holds

The divine. One God in three persons.

Death and after. Resurrection and judgment.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it

Judaism — c. 1000 BCE Christianity — 30 CE Catholicism Protestantism — 1517 CE Pentecostalism — 1906 CE

Keep going

Back to the overview — the living page: elements, discussion, the web The Belief room — the claims themselves, with sources and context Branch Pentecostalism — inherit everything, change what you must