Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the 21st Century

by HarveyG.Cox (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $22.80

  It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a weird babble coming from the building. Believers were speaking in tongues, the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible?and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality?a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people.