Azusa Street Revival.<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Craig Borlase’s biography about this amazing man is worth reading. In it you find out what went in to making this man who made the movement but it is also a valuable tool to understandning the conditions that created jazz because Seymour lived at the turn of the century in Louisiana and Borlase provides a lot of historical informaiton about what life was like then.<\/p>\n
What often gets lost in the controversy of its pneumatology is the fact that it was and is one of the most integrated forms of our faith. <\/p>\n
Is it just coincidence that Jazz and Pentecostalism have roots in New Orleans and were birthed during the same time period both breaking down racial, class and cultural barriers?<\/p>\n
Harvey Cox, the Victor Thomas Professor of Religion at Harvard sure thinks so–<\/p>\n
to be continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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