More Than Tongues Can Tell: Theological Generosity in Black Pentecostal Thought

Pentecostalism is often characterized as an ecstatic movement—centrally involving spirited worship, speaking in tongues, prophecy, and healing—as well as an exclusivist one, primarily aligned with North American white evangelicalism. Yet there is a vibrant Black Pentecostal tradition stretching back more than a century that is both theologically complex and deeply grounded in an ethics of social justice.

In More Than Tongues Can Tell, Eric Lewis Williams dismantles prevailing notions of Pent...