摘要：I believe Carpenter and I are basically agreed that early Pentecostalism was either directly or indirectly influenced by certain Evangelical bodies and traditions such as the Wesleyan-Holiness movement, various Reformed-Baptistic groups and the Plymouth Brethren. What we disagreed over is, given the fact of these historical links, how should Pentecostals understand themselves in relation to other Christian traditions. Carpenter would like Pentecostals to reaffirm their historical linkage. This, he thinks, is the "only" way for a "genuinely Pentecostal traditioning" to be done (p. 313).1I am, however, calling on Pentecostals to reevaluate those links and develop a broader vision of themselves as pa rt of the larger Christian spiritual tradition without thereby repudiating their evangelical heritage
