Dr. Cecil M. Robeck Jr. will present the Twentieth Annual Azusa Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Lee University Chapel. Robeck will present “Reaping the Harvest: Lessons from the Azusa Street Revival.” Following Robeck’s presentation, the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center will honor Dr. Jacqueline E. Smith, national evangelist, with the Spirit of Azusa Award and a reception for her exemplary evangelistic ministry. Those unable to attend in person may view the lecture and award presentation livestream at leeu.live.
Robeck is senior professor of church history at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he has taught since 1974. Previously, Robeck served as an instructor in religion at Southern California College (now Vanguard University) and as a trustee for Bethany Bible College in Scotts Valley, California. At Fuller, he has served in numerous administrative positions, including director of the David J. du Plessis Center for Christian Spirituality and associate dean for academic programs in the School of Theology. Robeck is an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God.
Robeck has written more than 300 articles, and his long-term historical research centers on the Azusa Street Mission and Revival and its African American pastor, William Seymour. He has authored “The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement” (recipient of the Society for Pentecostal Studies’ Pneuma Award) and “Prophecy at Carthage: Perpetua, Tertullian, and Cyprian.” He is editor of “Witness to Pentecost: The Life of Frank Bartleman and Charismatic Experiences in History” and coeditor of “The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy” (with Harold D. Hunter) and “The Suffering Body: Responding to the Persecution of Christians” (also with Harold D. Hunter). Robeck also coedited the “Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism” (with Amos Yong). For nine years, he was editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies.
His recent publications have focused on the Holy Spirit, the Church, unity in the Pentecostal perspective, and potential contributions the Pentecostal Movement can make to the world Christian Movement.
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