Includes bibliographical references.

The Wesleyan, Holiness, and Pentecostal family / Henry H. Knight III -- John Wesley and the quest for holiness / Henry H. Knight III -- John Fletcher's Trinitarian theology of grace / Matthew K. Thompson -- The people called Methodists / Stephen W. Rankin -- A pastoral response / Rodney McNeall -- Where have all the Asburys gone?: Francis Asbury and leadership in the Wesleyan, Holiness, and Pentecostal traditions / John H. Wigger -- Richard Allen and the making of early American Methodism / Dennis C. Dickerson -- The eccentric cosmopolite: Lorenzo Dow and early nineteenth-century Methodism / Douglas M. Strong -- Phoebe Palmer: spreading "accessible" holiness / Diane K. Leclerc -- Gospel simplicity: Benjamin Titus Roberts and the formation of the Free Methodist Church / Douglas R. Cullum -- Pastoral response / Corky Alexander -- Bishop Daniel A. Payne and the A. M. E. mission to the "ransomed" / Dennis C. Dickerson -- Julia Foote : exemplifying the holiness message of fervency, inclusion, and unity / Douglas M. Strong -- Daniel Sydney Warner: joining holiness and all truth / Barry L. Callen -- God's trustee: Martin Wells Knapp and radical holiness / Wallace Thornton Jr. -- Amanda Berry Smith: woman at the intersections / Estrelda Alexander -- Phineas Franklin Bresee: recovering the original spirit of Methodism / Harold E. Raser -- John Alexander Dowie: born to command / D. William Faupel -- Maria B. Woodworth-Etter: bridging the Wesleyan-Pentecostal divide / Joshua J. McMullen -- Pastoral response / David Aaron Johnson.

Charles Parham : progenitor of Pentecostalism / Leslie D. Callahan -- William J. Seymour : the father of the Holiness-Pentecostal movement / Steven J. Land -- C. H. Mason : sanctified reformer / L.F. Thuston -- William D. Durham and the finished work of Calvary / D. William Faupel -- Restoration, accommodation, and innovation : the contributions of Aime Semple McPherson / Kimberly Ervin Alexander -- Ida Robinson : loosing women to lead / Estrelda Alexander -- Henry C. Ball, Francisco Olazábal, Alice E. Luce, and the Assemblies of God Borderlands Mission / Arlene Sanchez Walsh -- G. T. Haywood and the emergence of Oneness Pentecostalism / Estrelda Alexandr -- Pastoral response / J.C. Kelley -- Borden Parker Browne and Henry Clay Morrison : conflicting conceptions of twentieth-century Methodism / Douglas M. Strong -- E. Stanley Jones : the Holiness evangelist as social critic / William C. Kostlevy -- Archibald J. Carey Jr., African Methodism, and the public square / Dennis C. Dickerson -- Mildred Bangs Wynkoop : bridging the credibility gap / Diane K. Leclerc -- Pastoral response / Laura Guy -- A historical interpretation / John H. Wigger -- A theological interpretation / Stephen W. Rankin -- A pastoral interpretation / Philip R. Hamner -- Visions of a new humanity / Henry H. Knight III.