Sunday, October 12, 2025

Book Review: Blosser & Sullivan "Speaking in Tongues" Volume 2

Back in 2023 I reviewed Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination by Phil Blosser and Charles Sullivan and published by Pickwick Publications. It was an excellent book and an ecumenical venture of the best kind (Blosser is Catholic and Sullivan a Protestant), tackling the Charismatic subculture within both Protestantism and Catholicism with a detailed study of how the Charismatic conception of tongues developed out of the British Irvingite movement of the 19th century, developing into modern Pentecostalism in the aftermath of the Tongues Missionary Crisis of 1906-1909.