![]() ![]() They are all leaders who paved the way toward the formal Pentecostal movement. Harvey, Charles Price Jones, Frank Sandford, and Alma White. ![]() In the first section, “Forerunners,” the leaders that the editors include are John Alexander Dowie, E. Many of the contributors are known scholars of Pentecostalism while others aren’t very well known in the academic world. Portraits of a Generation is separated into three sections: “Forerunners,” “Visionaries,” and “Builders.” All of the chapters are about individual early leaders. There is a common view that Pentecostalism was a movement without structure or leaders, but this book instead shows that the movement had a strong sense of both. ![]() They differ on areas from ideas about theology, ethnic and social background, and areas of living. In this book, they represent leaders from all different walks of life. It gives insight into who really had the vision and those who desired seeing those visions put into real life. Instead of giving a large, drawn-out list of every leader in the Pentecostal movement, it gives the testimonies and interests of those leaders that maybe weren’t quite as famous. Portraits of a Generation talks about many of the early Pentecostal leaders. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders, ed. ![]()
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