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God's Peculiar People

Historian Grant Wacker explains why Pentecostals survived and even flourished.

Edward J. Gitre | posted 3/11/2002 12:00AM

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Edward J. Gitre is campus minister at the University of Chicago for the Assemblies of God's Chi Alpha ministry.

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Christianity Today sister publication Christian HistoryreviewedHeaven Below in August.

An excerpt from the book is available on our site.

Christian History's issue 58 tells the story of Pentecostalism's beginnings and early years, and includes an article by Grant Wacker on the reception pentecostalism received from evangelicals. The issue can be ordered here.

Peter Steinfels wrote about Wacker's book in The New York Times. Other review excerpts can be found at Harvard University Press's Web page for Heaven Below:Early Pentacostals and American Culture.

Heaven Below can be ordered from Amazon.com and other book retailers.

Last July, Edward J. Gitre wrote a Christianity Today Speaking Out column that asked, "Who is writing the church's story?"

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