摘要：Gary McGee, long-time Professor of Church History and Pentecostalism at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, Springfield, Missouri, has written the latest official history of this American Pentecostal denomination. People of the Spirit is unlike most denominational histories. The institutional and structural issues are muted, and it is certainly not a detailed analysis of statistics and the changing shape of the denomination. Although important events are cited, it appears that such data are brought in as inconspicuously as possible. Rather, McGee has sought to capture the ethos of this revival movement
