Pentecostal History Book
 

To Pentecostal History buffs,
I got my first shipment of history books today.

Biography of Seymour, published by Strang (charisma)

"Fire on the Earth" which is a collection of articles from the 'Apostolic Faith' and eyewitness accounts of the Azuza revival

Azuza Street Centenial which Epley recommended to me. Has a lot of great pictures from the early 20th century.
these three were published for the Azuza Centenial.

Then I also bought "100 years of the Holy Spirit" by Vinson Synan. I'm really enjoying this book.

I got a copy of Christianity without the Cross" but I'm waiting for my next airplane ride to read it.


SO, what else should I look for? I'm not trying to go overboard but I'd like to have a nice little collection

Feliz Navidad :santaclaus

Vision of the Disinherited by Robert Mapes Anderson. Excellent, though from a non-Pentecostal perspective. It's out of print and hard to find. I had to keep hitting Amazon.com for a while before I found a used copy for under $20.00. Right now some folks are selling their old copies for as much as $200.00! That's nuts!

But it's a very popular out of print work. You've got to be ready to compete to get a copy at a reasonable price. Unless $200.00 is reasonable to you, LOL. There are some in the $40.00 range too though. I paid 19.99 for my used copy and got it from the Irving Public Library through Amazon.

*** Just got Fields White Unto Harvest by Goff in the mail this evening. Haven't read it yet but it is used by a lot of PPH books as a reference, like Anderson's Vision. Fields focuses on the work of Parham and I was told it was one of the books responsible for bringing Parham's contributions out of the shadows. We'll see.

You have to read "Fudges book". I just received a very cool letter from Thomas Fundges dad James Fudge from New Brunswick, Canada.

He sent me a nice letter of recollections of meeting my dad in 1963.

He was the first Pentecostal minster James Fudge had ever heard.

He sent me 2 picutes of my dad from 1966 from a revival he preached in NB.

It was so cool.

Please let me know what you think of the items you are reading.

I will get copies as well.

God Bless

Nathan Eckstadt

Is there any way to obtain copies of articles, pamphlets, or similar from A.D. Urshan??

I suggest you go to
http://www.1stapostolic.org/old_publications.htm
and check out some of those old magazines.
There are copies of the PAJC magazine from the 1930's until the last one that was put out after the merger with the PCI in 1945. There are also some old Pentecostal Heralds there. I noticed some A.D. Urshan articles in some of the old Outlooks.

Neckstadt you should purchase the Azuza package that the "Azuza Centenial "and Charisma offered

you get three books
Biography of Seymour,
"Fire on the Earth"
Azuza Street Centenial

all for $48 dollars....the Azuza Street Centenial is a "coffee table" type book. awesome pictures of revivals, ministers....
i'll post the link

Christianity without the cross, I asked the publishing house rep. at the ALJC youth convention this year if they carry that book. I was told no. Now that I think about it, I am not surprized.

I understand The book called The History or Dictionary Of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements is pretty good.I might not have the title correct though.

If that is the book I remember looking at a few years ago, then yes it is.