Mack P. Holt

Pentecostal Aspects of Early Sixteenth-century Anabaptism

History & Biography

“Four hundred years after both Protestant and Catholic powers tried to snuff out the spiritualist radicals called Anabaptists during the sixteenth-century, Pentecostalism emerged as a new spiritualist Christian community. Charles Byrd's new book explores both groups and finds striking similarities in their outlooks, beliefs, and practices, especially concerning charismatic gifts. It not only provides modern Pentecostals a better understanding of their historical antecedents, but it also sheds new light on the Reformation itself.”