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The Fire-Baptized Holiness Church was a radical holiness Christian denomination in North America and was involved in the early formation of Pentecostalism. Founded in 1895, it merged with the Pentecostal Holiness Church in 1911, forming a new denomination now known as the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. Prior to the merger the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church was an interracial body. In 1908, most of the African-American members withdrew to form their own church, the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas. ==History== The church was founded by Rev. Benjamin Hardin Irwin of Lincoln, Nebraska. Irwin was educated as a lawyer but entered ordained ministry after he was converted in a Baptist church. After coming into contact with members of the Iowa Holiness Association, Irwin accepted holiness beliefs and claimed to experience sanctification in 1891. He was a student of the writings of John Wesley and John William Fletcher and eventually joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church.〔Vinson Synan, ''The Holiness–Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century'', (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997), page 51, ISBN 978-0-8028-4103-2.〕 Irwin became convinced that there was an experience beyond sanctification called the "baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire" or simply "the fire". After receiving this experience in October 1895, he began to preach this "third blessing" among holiness adherents in the Midwest, particularly among Wesleyan Methodists and Brethren in Christ. His services were highly emotional with participants often getting the "jerks", shouting, speaking in tongues, and holy dancing and laughing.〔Synan, ''The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition'', 52.〕 Thousands attended his meetings and his teaching was circulated widely within the holiness movement, with its greatest strength in the Midwest and South. His message was largely rejected, however, and was denounced as a "third blessing heresy".〔Synan, ''The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition'', 53.〕 Because of opposition Irwin formed his own organization in 1895 called the Iowa Fire-Baptized Holiness Association at Olmitz, Iowa. As he traveled throughout the nation, he established associations to promote his message.〔Synan, ''The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition'', 53-4.〕 By the time these associations were organized into one denomination in 1898, there were churches in eight American states and two Canadian provinces.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Pentecostal Holiness Church )〕 An organizational convention was held in Anderson, South Carolina. William E. Fuller, an African-American minister who had left the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was elected to the church's general board and became the overseer of the black churches. By 1900, Fuller had organized 50 black Fire-Baptized churches and a convention.〔Synan, ''The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition'', 55.〕 In 1900, Irwin confessed to "open and gross sin" which brought "great reproach" to the church. He resigned as general overseer and was replaced by Joseph H. King, a 31-year-old former Methodist from Georgia. The revelation of Irwin's failure greatly affected the church; several state associations collapsed.〔Synan, ''The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition'', 58-59.〕 By 1906, King led the church into third-blessing Pentecostalism, taking the line that the baptism in the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues had been the "baptism of fire" the church had been seeking. After 1908, the denomination split on racial lines when Fuller left, with the blessing of the white leadership, and started what would become the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas. In 1911, the church merged with the Pentecostal Holiness Church and took the latter organization’s name even though the Fire-Baptized church was larger.〔 The body resulting from the merger would be renamed the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fire-Baptized Holiness Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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