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A Comparative Study on the Two Earliest Chinese Pentecostal Periodicals: Popular Gospel Truth and Pentecostal Truth
Iap, Sian-chin
Iap, Sian-chin
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Periodicals were once a crucial media for Protestant mission societies to share thei rmissionary activities in foreign fields in connection with one another among missionary networks．This was also true of the Pentecostal Movement, the Azusa Street Mission,and other Pentecostal missions which had published various periodicals in order to build a network among “Apostolic Faith” participants．Pentecostal periodicals published in the movement's earliest days could be considered as one of the central assumptions to observe the origins of global Pentecostalism．Some of the earliest Pentecostals in China—both missionaries and locals also published Pentecostal periodicals in Chinese languages to promote the Pentecostal message．The Popular Gospel Truth and The Pentecostal Truth, two earliest Chinese Pentecostal periodicals which shaped the two distinctive streams of Pentecostalism/Pentecostal-Stylebelief in China—the True Jesus Church and the HongKong Pentecostal Mission,respectively．In fact,the editors of both periodicals were connected with missionaries sent by the Azusa Street Mission who had direct roots in the Azusa Street Revival．However,these two periodicals reflected two different aspects of North American Pentecostalism—Holiness Pentecostals and Oneness Pentecostals．This essay will compare the two core theological issues of Pentecostalism—sanctification and Spirit- baptism—as discussed in these two periodicals．
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2017
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