William J. Seymour taught his recently discovered “new & improved doctrine of tongues” that was not his own. This doctrine actually originated in his professor, Charles Fox Parham. This was a far cry from Seymour’s background of tongues, which was rooted in the “unintelligible speech” spoken by witch doctors and conjurer men in African traditional religion and Haiti Voodoo. Conversely Parham’s doctrine was supposedly in line with the biblical account of Acts 2. In Bible history the Acts 2 tongues
the Bible. The Holiness Revival produced zeal for "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" (a heavenly enablement for believers) and for other gifts of the Holy Spirit such as healing and prophecy (Dieter, 1996). Holiness leaders such as John Alexander Dowie, Charles Cullis, and Albert B. Simpson set up healing missions across the U.S. They, like other holiness advocates, believed a new, miraculous era of the spirit was taking place which would end in the second coming of Christ (Dieter,
Seymour William Joseph Seymour was born in 1870 in Louisiana. He was the first African American preacher to induce the Pentecostal religious movement (Alexander 9). Seymour was a scholars at Novel Bible School, which was established in 1905 by Charles Parham in Texas (Espinosa 12). This was where Seymour learned and embraced major doctrines and teachings that were propagated by the Holiness Movement, the common belief of speaking in tongues (Glossolalia) (Heaton 13). According to the belief, speaking
This term paper is written to address and study the language of Pentecostal churches around the world. In the Pentecostal churches some characteristics differentiate them from other denominations of the world and as such they have some features which are regarded as the Pentecostal phenomena, they include prophecies, visions, dreams, signs and wonders, and tongues. This paper is also to consider these Pentecostal phenomena as a symbolic language in relation to the language of Pentecostal churches