Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion

Events & Conferences
Evangelical Studies Program
Evangelical Studies Program
Evangelicalism and the Holy Spirit

October 1-3, 2025
Virtual Conference
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About The Conference

From its eighteenth-century emergence to the rise of its Pentecostal and charismatic varieties, Evangelicalism has often been shaped, differentiated, and divided by different theologies and practices in relation to the Holy Spirit. This conference will map and elucidate the varieties of Evangelical approaches to the Holy Spirit across time and place: from the early Evangelicalism of Whitefield and the Wesleys to contemporary Pentecostal uses of the past in social media, and across six continents.

Virtual Conference. Registration is required. All session times are in Central time zone.

Session moderators include Beth Allison Barr (James Vardaman Professor of History, Baylor University); João B. Chaves (Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in the Américas, Baylor University; Doug Weaver (Barbara Jo Beard Driskell Professor in Historical Studies, Baylor University).

All listed times Central Standard time.
Conference attendees may access the stream 15 minutes prior the start of each day.

October 1st

8:00am
Introductory Session
8:10am
D. Bruce Hindmarsh
(Regent College, Canada)
The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism
9:00am
Break
9:10am
Kerrie Handasyde
(Pilgrim Theological College, Australia)
The Holy Spirit in the Nineteenth-Century Print Culture of Australia and the Pacific
10:00am
Break
10:15am
Priscilla Pope Levison
(SMU Perkins School of Theology)
Assessing Divine Healing in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Conversation Among Black Holiness Evangelists
11:00am
Break
11:10am
Thomas Kidd
(Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
The Holy Spirit and the Second Great Awakening

October 2nd

8:00am
John Maiden and David Bebbington
(Current and former Director, Evangelical Studies Program)
Reflections on 5 years of the ESP
8:10am
Andrew Atherstone
(Oxford University, UK)
Come, Holy Spirit: Pentecostal Pioneers in the late-Victorian Church of England
9:00am
Break
9:10am
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
(Trinity Theological Seminary)
The Emotional Spirit: Evangelicalism, Its Malcontents, and the Making of African Charismatic Christianity
10:00am
Break
10:15am
John Amalraj
(Independent, India)
Acts of the Holy Spirit in the Indian Missional Movement
11:00am
Break
11:10am
Allison Kach-Yawnghwe
(Boston University)
Interdenominationally Pentecostal: YWAM, the Holy Spirit, and the Pentecostalization of World Christianity

October 3rd

8:00am
News on ESP 2026
8:10am
Dongjun Seo
(Korean Bible University)
The Holy Spirit and Capitalism: The Making of Yonggi Cho's Pneumatology in the Context of Korea's Economic Growth
9:00am
Break
9:10am
Leah Payne
(George Fox University)
Holy Spirit Hustlers: The Pentecostalization of Evangelicalism through Media & the Marketplace
10:00am
Break
10:15am
Caleb Maskell
(Independent, US)
Arguing About Apostles: John Wimber, C. Peter Wagner, and a Crisis of Evangelical Ecclesiology
11:00am
Break
11:10am
Laura Hall
(Open University, UK)
Re-mixing the Pentecostal visual archive and creating Evangelical history: Social Media Stories
12:00pm
Concluding Remarks
Baylor ISR exists to initiate, support, and conduct research on religion, involving scholars and projects spanning the intellectual spectrum: history, psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, epidemiology, theology, and religious studies. Our mandate extends to all religions, everywhere, and throughout history. It also embraces the study of religious effects on such things as prosocial behavior, family life, population health, economic development, and social conflict. While always striving for appropriate scientific objectivity, our scholars treat religion with the respect that sacred matters require and deserve.
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