![]() ![]() ![]() No history of the charismatic or Pentecostal movement can ignore Azusa street and when I went to a Pentecostal Bible college in the 1980’s, it was widely believed (and taught) that the segregation of the movement helped kill it for a time. The influence by African-American thinkers and ministers in Pentecostalism, for example, is immense. The book is vital: American Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism is heavily African-American. ![]() Anyabwile sketches what the subtitle to the book calls a decline “from Biblical faith to cultural compromise.” Just as Reformed Christians have been here from the start, so have African-American Christians. This is an admirably readable history: scholarly without academic jargon. As Mark Noll points out in the introduction to the book, the clear perspective gives the book focus and so allows much work to get done in a short space. Anyabwile is a Reformed Christian, very much so, and he sketches a history of African American theology from that perspective in The Decline of African American Theology. ![]()
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