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Fire Baptized: The Many Lives and Works of Benjamin Hardin Irwin, by Vinson Synan and Daniel Woods

Fire Baptized: The Many Lives and Works of Benjamin Hardin Irwin, by Vinson Synan and Daniel Woods Vinson Synan and Daniel Woods, Fire Baptized: The Many Lives and Works of Benjamin Hardin Irwin (Lexington, KY: Emeth, 2017). 246 pp. $ 40.00 paperback.In 1972, in his seminal work The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement, Vinson Synan introduced the English-speaking Christian world to the illusive figure of Benjamin Hardin Irwin, the founder and leader of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, from which sprang the contemporary denomination, the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. While earlier authors, who chronicled the beginnings of the Pentecostal Movement in the United States, mentioned Irwin, they were all short on biographical details. With the release of Fire-Baptized many mysteries surrounding Irwin’s early and later life have been revealed.In the first section of the book, Synan, who is presently a scholar-in-residence at Oral Roberts University, weaves the story of Irwin’s birth in Missouri, the years of his youth in Nebraska and his family’s membership and participation in the Primitive or Old Baptist Church. These strict Calvinists separated from their fellow Baptists over the issue of sending forth missionaries to proclaim the Gospel. So strong was the Primitive Baptist belief in the doctrine of double predestination that they felt it was a waste of time, and money, to send out missionaries when http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Fire Baptized: The Many Lives and Works of Benjamin Hardin Irwin, by Vinson Synan and Daniel Woods

Cremeens, Timothy
Pneuma , Volume 39 (4): 3 – Jan 1, 2017
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Vinson Synan and Daniel Woods, Fire Baptized: The Many Lives and Works of Benjamin Hardin Irwin (Lexington, KY: Emeth, 2017). 246 pp. $ 40.00 paperback.In 1972, in his seminal work The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement, Vinson Synan introduced the English-speaking Christian world to the illusive figure of Benjamin Hardin Irwin, the founder and leader of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, from which sprang the contemporary denomination, the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. While earlier authors, who chronicled the beginnings of the Pentecostal Movement in the United States, mentioned Irwin, they were all short on biographical details. With the release of Fire-Baptized many mysteries surrounding Irwin’s early and later life have been revealed.In the first section of the book, Synan, who is presently a scholar-in-residence at Oral Roberts University, weaves the story of Irwin’s birth in Missouri, the years of his youth in Nebraska and his family’s membership and participation in the Primitive or Old Baptist Church. These strict Calvinists separated from their fellow Baptists over the issue of sending forth missionaries to proclaim the Gospel. So strong was the Primitive Baptist belief in the doctrine of double predestination that they felt it was a waste of time, and money, to send out missionaries when

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