The Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements

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The best book exposing the history of the Pentecostal Charismatic movement. David Cloud begins with his own experience within Pentecostalism and then deals with the history of the Pentecostal movement, beginning with a survey of miraculous signs from the second to the 18th centuries. He then examine the movements in the 19th century that led up to the creation of Pentecostalism and the outbreak of 'tongues-speaking' at Charles Parham’s Bible school in Topeka, Kansas,in 1901, and at William Seymour’s Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles in 1906. Cloud examines some of the major Pentecostal denominations, the Latter Rain Covenant, the major Pentecostal healing evangelists, the Sharon Schools and the New Order of the Latter Rain, the Manifest Sons of God, the Word-Faith movement and its key leaders, the Charismatic Movement, the Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the Pentecostal Prophets, the Third Wave, and the recent Pentecostal scandals. He concludes the historical section with a look at the Laughing Revival. In the last section of the book Cloud deals with the theological errors of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements (exalting experience over Scripture,emphasis on the miraculous, Messianic and apostolic miracles can be reproduced, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of fire,exalting the Holy Spirit, tongues speaking is for today, sinless perfectionism, healing is guaranteed in the atonement, spirit slaying, spirit drunkenness, visions of Jesus, trips to heaven, women preachers, and ecumenism). The final section of the book answers the question: “Why are people deluded by Pentecostal-Charismatic error?” An excellent book, fully documented.

Paperback, 336 pages