Donald W. Dayton (Yale Divinity School; Ph.D., University of Chicago), is a professor of theology and ethics at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, IL. His earlier books include The American Holiness Movement: A Bibliographic Introduction and Discovering an Evangelical Heritage. Many of the sources for this book have been reprinted in The Higher Christian Life under his editorship. He is active in a number of professional societies and recently became president-elect of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He co-edits Scarecrow's Studies in Evangelicism series with Kenneth E. Rowe.

...the clearest of distillations. But what shines through the most is his fairness...his contribution to Pentecostal studies is a 'blessing;' but its value for evangelical historiography is a 'second blessing.' Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture ...An illuminating piece of work that concludes with a highly valuable and extensive bibliographical essay and with three indexes... Adris Newsletter ...A much needed tool. He makes it possible for us to see Pentecostals, so often dismissed as a fringe group, as intimately connected with the so-called mainstream of American religion. Theology Today ...magisterial...should become the standard work on the theological matrix of Pentecostal self-understanding. Ecumenical Review In applying the methods of historical theology to a movement that has rarely been approached in this manner, the author breaks new ground and suggests a closer relationship of Pentecostalism to Reformed and Wesleyan Protestantism than has sometimes been recognized...Very helpful to scholars and a useful addition to undergraduate and graduate collections of American religious, intellectual, and social history. CHOICE

Donald W. Dayton (Yale Divinity School; Ph.D., University of Chicago), is a professor of theology and ethics at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, IL. His earlier books include The American Holiness Movement: A Bibliographic Introduction and Discovering an Evangelical Heritage. Many of the sources for this book have been reprinted in The Higher Christian Life under his editorship. He is active in a number of professional societies and recently became president-elect of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He co-edits Scarecrow's Studies in Evangelicism series with Kenneth E. Rowe.

...the clearest of distillations. But what shines through the most is his fairness...his contribution to Pentecostal studies is a 'blessing;' but its value for evangelical historiography is a 'second blessing.' Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture ...An illuminating piece of work that concludes with a highly valuable and extensive bibliographical essay and with three indexes... Adris Newsletter ...A much needed tool. He makes it possible for us to see Pentecostals, so often dismissed as a fringe group, as intimately connected with the so-called mainstream of American religion. Theology Today ...magisterial...should become the standard work on the theological matrix of Pentecostal self-understanding. Ecumenical Review In applying the methods of historical theology to a movement that has rarely been approached in this manner, the author breaks new ground and suggests a closer relationship of Pentecostalism to Reformed and Wesleyan Protestantism than has sometimes been recognized...Very helpful to scholars and a useful addition to undergraduate and graduate collections of American religious, intellectual, and social history. CHOICE