Table Talks: Pentecostal History
Speaker Bios
Vinson Synan
Dean Emeritus, School of Divinity, Regent University
B.A. University of Richmond (History)
M.A. University of Georgia (U.S. History)
Ph.D. University of Georgia (U.S. Social & Intellectual History)
Vinson Synan received his Ph.D. in American history in 1967 from the University of Georgia. In 1970 he co-founded the Society for Pentecostal Studies which has given institutional shape to Pentecostal research. Over the years, Dr. Synan has published numerous scholarly and popular articles, essays and books on various Pentecostal and charismatic themes; including Holiness-Pentecostal Movement, The Twentieth-Century Pentecostal Explosion, Century of the Holy Spirit, and Voices of Pentecost.
Stanley Burgess
Distinguished Professor of Christian History, Regent University
B.A. University of Michigan
M.A. University of Michigan
Ph.D. University of Missouri
Stanley Burgess received his Ph.D in history from the University of Missouri - Columbia. He served on the faculty of history and religious studies At Missouri State University for the twenty-eight years. I has also taught in India, England and the Continent, and was appointed as consultant to the government of Saudi Arabia. He has written many books, including a multi-volume history of the Holy Spirit in various branches of the Christian Church, and three encyclopedias on the modern Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements.