Creation, Evolution, and Holy Ghost Religion: Holiness and Pentecostal Responses to Darwinism

Abstract

In the summer of 1926, the Holiness evangelist Andrew Johnson announced the Suspension of his twenty-seven-part attack on “the biological baboon boosters,” serialized in the Pentecostal Herald, so that he could temporarily return to the camp-meeting circuit. No one in the Holiness Community had been agitating more vigorously to “shake the monkey out of the cocoanut tree,” as he described his Crusade, and he wanted to assure his readers that his “lectures against Darwinism and ‘ape to man’ evolution” would never eclipse the gospel of salvation. “There is nothing like an old-fashioned, soul-saving revival of Holy Ghost religion,” declared the bombastic preacher. “So, let it be distinctly understood that the lectures on Evolution are absolutely secondary to the main line work of intense, soul-saving evangelism to which we have been called and in which we expect to remain.”

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