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WI N TER 1996 • V O L UME 4 , No. Wesleyan/Holiness Studies Center at A~bllry ·heologica1 Scm'nary BULLETIN The Wesleyan Paradigm and the Kaleidoscope within: The Scholarship of Charles Edwin Jones by Steven D. Cooley world, however, contrasted to Roaring Creek. These estab evangelical history is already University of Dayton that of the congregation's lished orphanages, schools, and apparent in the interpretations working laity who daily inter rescue missions rather than of lones's student paperz While harles Edwin lones has acted with the world outside churches. Women preachers arising from his personal expe been a leading partici the denomination. This lay traveled the circuits, received rience of the tradition, these C pant in a generation of working class experience of the ordination, and served as head priorities were also cultivated historians seeking to introduce Nazarene headquarters church administrators. Worship was by the Oklahoma New Deal Wesleyan-Holiness studies to has contributed to lones's dis noisy and emotional, while per progressivism of his teacher, scholarly consideration and to tinctive historical priorities. sonal behavior was firmly Fred Floyd, and further sup interpret that tradition to itself In 1954, Charles completed restricted. At the furthest fringe, ported by the official Nazarene While raising the scholarly level a history degree at Peniel extremists rejected sacraments, history at that time by ME of this discussion, lones and hi s Bethany College in Bethany, advocated marital purity, and Redford.) colleagues have remained self Okla , which published his questioned the spiritual validity Redford regarded that era's consciously animated by ques noisy emotional worship and tions arising from the subjective strict behavioral codes as equal core of their locations within ly essential as the tradition's this religious tradition. As lones theological and institutional himself has written, "Most ~ identity. lones's continuation of social commentary is in one these earlier official priorities way or another biographicaL '" CHARLES EDWIN JONES HAS BEEN A has set his work apart from the Charles was born to Dove tradition's current self-under and Dess lones who had LEADING PARTICIPANT IN A GENERATION standing, which has presented migrated from Arkansas to itself since the I 950s as essen Kansas City, Mo., in early OF HISTORIANS SEEKING TO INTRODUCE tially an intellectual tradition. 1924, the peak decade of rural lones's priorities for ritual, migration into the cities. There behavior, and experience have Dess began forty years as a WESLEYAN/HoLINESS STUDIES TO been a counterpoint to these street care operator for the city studies, and have assisted in and joined the labor union. SCHOLARLY CONSIDERATION, maintaining something of The family's rural Baptist and Redford's earli er balance within Methodist roots were not easily the larger conversation overalL transplanted to the larger urban In 1955, lones completed a churches, but the lones' found master's degree in library sci community with other rural ence at the University of emigrants in the Church of Michigan. This led to positions God (Holiness), before moving senior paper. Here lones dis of modem medicine and exces as librarian for Park College, to the slightly more upscale played most of the distinctive sive bathing. Holiness theology curator of manuscripts for the Church of the Nazarene. Both historical priorities he would received quick treatment, and Michigan Historical Collections were then disparagingly labeled pursue during the next 40 future institutional leaders of the University of Michigan, as "holy roller" churches due to years. This student paper, appeared without the later dig and as cataloger for history at their emotionally demonstra which remains worth reading, nities of office or maturity. Brown University. This experi tive worship where shouting, explored the energetic populist This is history from the bot ence as librarian and archivist weeping, waving of handker "background" which the tom up, giving a sympathetic contributed to lones's extensive chiefs and aisle running were Nazarene denominational hearing to the democratized bibliographic publications and not unknown. The Nazarene structure would harness after Christianity of the white to his support of the Nazarene congregation prospered with 1910. We read of obscure folk "riffraff and their concerns for Archives in Kansas City and of the establishment of the preachers organized loosely in piety and practical action. What the Wesleyan/ Holiness Studies denomination's headquarters in associations and appearing in has been called the kaleido Kansas City. This institutional places like Chickasha and Hell scopic "Holiness model" of cant. on page 3 The Bulletin of the WeslnanlHoliness Studies Center Recent Articles on Wesleyan/Holiness Theme Blumhofer, Edith L., ed. "Focus: Evangelicalism.'" Henceforth: A in the I 830s." Social Science Richey, Russell E. "And WeAre Women and Pentecostalism." Journal of Advent Christian History 19 Spring 1995): 1-30. Yet Alive, A Study in Pneuma (Spring 1995): 19-87. lhought 22 (Spring 1995): 8-26. Conference Self Jones, Charles E. "Reading the Preoccupation." Methodist Brox, Harold. 'The Beginnings of G1esner, Anthony Patrick. "Laura Text in Methodist-Holiness and History 33 (July 1995) 249-61. the Evangelical United Haviland: Neglected Heroine of Pentecostal Spirituality." Brethren Church in Upper the Underground Railroad." Weslryan lheologiC11l Journal 30 Roebeck, David. "Perfect Liberty Canada." In Canadian Methodist Michigan Historical Quarterly 22 (Fall 1995): 164-81. to Preach the Gospel: Women HistoncalSociety Papers, volume (Spring 1995) 19-48. Ministers in the Church of 10, pp. 32-45. Jones, Charles E. "Symbol and God." Pneuma 17 (Spring, Hackett, David G. "Gender and Sign in Methodist holiness and 1995): 25-32. Cooley, Steven D. "Applying the Religion in American Culture, Pentecostal Spirituality." In Vagueness of Language: Poetic 1870-1930." Religion and Americas Alternative Religions, Ruth, Lester. "A Reconsideration Strategies and Campmeeting American Culture 5 (Summer Timothy Miller, ed. (Albany, of the Frequency of the Piety in the Mid-Nineteenth 1995): 12757. NY: State University of New Eucharist in Early American Century." Church History 63 York Press, 1995): 2332. Methodist." Methodist History 34 (December 1994): 570-86. Huber, Donald L. 'The Rise and (October 1995): 47-58. Fall of Lane Seminary: An Lady, Myron. "Jesse F. Lady: A Dayton, Donald W. "Good Antislavery Episode." Timeline Loyal Churchman in a Time of Schrag, Martin. 'The Life and News to the Poor: The 12 (May-June, 1995): 2-19. Transition" Brethren and Christ Times of Christian Lesher." Methodist Experience After Life and lhought I 8 (April Brethren and Christ Life and Wesley." In lhe Portion to the Huddle, Mark Andrew. "North 1995): 3-41. lhought 18 (April 1995): 42- Poor: Good News to the Poor in Carolina's Forgotten 123. the Weslryan Tradition. Abolitionist: The American Lippy, Charles H. 'The Camp (Nashville: Kingswood Books, Missionary Association Meeting in Transition: The Ward, Patricia A "Madame 1995), pp. 65-96. Correspondence of Daniel Character and Legacy of the Guyon in America: An Wilson." North Carolina Histoneal Late Nineteenth Century." Annotated Bibliography." Fea, John. "Power from on High Review 72 (October 1995): Methodist History 34 (October Bulletin of Bibliography 52 (/ur in the Age of Ecclesiastical 416-55. 1995): 3-17. 1995): 1071 I. Impotence: The Enduement of the Holy Spirit in American Hynson, Leon O. "Called to Be Moir, John S. "Egerton Ryerson, Wilson, John F. "A New Fundamentalist Thought, 1880- Pilgrims.'" Methodist History 33 the Christian Guardian and Denominational 1936." Fides et Historia 26 (July 1995): 207-225. Upper Canadian Politics, 1829- Historiography?" Religion and (Summer 1994): 23-35. 1840." In Canadian Methodist American Culture 5 (Summer Johnson, Curtis D. "Supply-side Historical Society Papers, volume 1995): 249-63. Gibson, Scott M. 'The and Demand-side Revivalism? 10, pp. 18-3 I. Significance of AJ. Gordon Evaluating the Social Influences (1836-1895) for Current on New York State Evangelism Dissertations on Wesleyan/Holiness Themes Adams, John Marion. 'The Heim, Melissa Lewis. "Making a Martinson, Jay Russell. "Wesleyan Wigger, John H. "Taking Heaven Making of an Neo-Evangelical Life in India: American Ways of Speaking: by Storm; Methodism and the Statesman The Case of Harold Missionary Households in 19th Transforming Experience