Date of Award
Spring 2009
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Theology
First Advisor
Rossi, Philip J.
Second Advisor
Carey, Patrick W.
Third Advisor
Del Colle, Ralph G.
Abstract
Pentecostals are known for being good storytellers. They're also known for being longwinded. I know I've been long-winded in this dissertation, but I also hope I've been a good storyteller in it too. This is because I've thought that this story has been one worth telling. I think I first recognized that someone needed to tell this story a year before I came to Marquette to begin my doctoral studies. In Fall 2002 I was asked to teach a class on Pentecostal history and, as Pentecostals like to say, its "distinctive" theology at my undergraduate alma mater, Nort Central University in Minneapolis. Before I was assigned this course, Glen Menzies, the department chair at North Central, sat me down to discuss if I was Pentecostal enough to represent, in my person, Pentecostal theology while teaching this course. He knew that I marched to a different, albeit, l claimed, still Pentecostal, drummer than most other Classical Pentecostals. After one of the more defining theological discussions of my life, we agreed that it was appropriate for me to leach this course...