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威廉·約瑟·西摩
William Joseph Seymour
出生(1870-05-02)1870年5月2日
 美國路易斯安那州聖瑪麗堂區森特維爾
逝世1922年9月28日(1922歲—09—28)（52歲）
 美國加利福尼亞州洛杉磯
職業牧師
配偶珍妮·埃文斯·摩爾
（1906年結婚—1922年結束）

威廉·約瑟·西摩（英語：William Joseph Seymour，1870年5月2日—1922年9月28日）是一名美國非裔聖潔派牧師。其發動的阿蘇撒街大復興導致五旬節運動和靈恩運動的興起。

西摩是早年五旬宗牧師查爾斯·帕勒姆（Charles Parham）的學生，並採納其說方言是接受聖靈洗禮信號的觀點。1906年，西摩遷往加利福尼亞州洛杉磯，並在當地傳播五旬宗教義及發動阿蘇撒街大復興。該場復興吸引眾多信徒的參與，亦吸引傳媒報道。西摩對復興的領導和其創辦《使徒信仰報》（The Apostolic Faith）的舉動使其成為五旬節運動的領袖。

隨着大復興的影響力延伸至洛杉磯以外，西摩亦開始As the revival's influence extended beyond Los Angeles through evangelism and missionary work, Seymour was in the process of developing the revival into a larger organization called the Apostolic Faith Movement. This process was ultimately defeated by power struggles with other ministers, such as Florence Crawford and William Howard Durham, which ultimately damaged the unity of the early Pentecostal movement and led to a decrease in Seymour's influence. By 1914, the revival was past its peak, but Seymour continued to pastor the Apostolic Faith Mission he founded until his death. The revival acted as a catalyst for the spread of Pentecostal practices, such as speaking in tongues and integrated worship, throughout the world. It also played an important role in the history of most major Pentecostal denominations.

Early life

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William Joseph Seymour was the second of eight children born to emancipated slaves Simon and Phyllis Salabar Seymour in Centerville, Louisiana.[1][2] He was baptized as a child at the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption in Franklin. In 1884, when Seymour was fourteen years old, his parents built a house about a mile and a half from his birthplace adjacent to the New Providence Baptist Church in Centerville that the family likely attended while remaining Catholics.[3][4]

While serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Seymour's father contracted an illness from which he finally died in November 1891. The twenty-one year old William then became the primary provider for his family, growing subsistence crops with very limited income from other sources. The family was able to keep their property but lived at the poverty level.[5]

Seymour grew up during a period of heightened racism that likely led to his decision to move north, away from the persecution endured by southern blacks around the turn of the century.[6] In 1895, Seymour moved to Indianapolis,[7] where he attended the Simpson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church[8] (and possibly other African American churches) and became a born-again Christian.[9]

Early career

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In Indianapolis, Seymour was introduced to the Holiness movement through Daniel S. Warner's "Evening Light Saints", a group whose distinctive beliefs included non-sectarianism, faith healing, foot washing, the imminent Second Coming of Christ, and separation from "the world" in actions, beliefs, and lifestyle, including not wearing jewelry or neckties.[10] In the summer of 1900, Seymour returned to Louisiana and worked briefly as a farm hand.[11]

In 1901, Seymour moved to Cincinnati, where he worked as a waiter and probably attended God's Bible School and Training Home, a school founded by holiness preacher Martin Wells Knapp. At Knapp's school, blacks and whites studied side by side. Knapp taught Premillennialism—that Jesus would return prior to a literal millennium—and also took seriously "special revelation" such as dreams and visions.[12][13] While in Cincinnati, Seymour contracted smallpox and was blinded in his left eye. Seymour blamed his disability on his reluctance to answer God's call to the ministry.[14]

Seymour moved to Houston in 1903.[14] During the winter of 1904-1905, he was directed by a "special revelation to Jackson, Mississippi, to receive spiritual advice from a well-known colored clergyman". He probably met Charles Price Jones and Charles Harrison Mason, founders of what would become the Church of God in Christ.[14] Between 1895 and 1905, Seymour also met other holiness leaders, including John Graham Lake and Charles Parham, who was leading a growing movement in the Midwest.[15]

Parham's Apostolic Faith Movement emphasized speaking in tongues. Although speaking in tongues had occurred in some isolated religious circles as early as 1897,[16] Parham began to practice it in 1900 and made the doctrine central to his theological system, believing it to be a sign that a Christian had received the baptism with the Holy Spirit.[17] On January 1, 1901, Parham and some of his students were praying over Agnes Ozman when she began to speak in what was interpreted to be Chinese, a language Ozman never learned. Pentecostals identify Ozman as the first person in modern times to receive the gift of speaking in tongues as an answer to prayer for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Parham also spoke in tongues and went on to open a Bible school in Houston as his base of operations in 1905.[18]

When Houston African American holiness leader Lucy F. Farrow took a position with Charles Parham's evangelistic team as his children's nanny, Farrow asked Seymour to pastor her church.[19] In 1906, with Farrow's encouragement, Seymour joined Parham's newly founded Bible school.[20][21] Though Seymour's attendance at Parham's school violated Texas Jim Crow laws, with Parham's permission, Seymour simply took a seat just outside the classroom door. Parham and Seymour shared pulpits and street corners on several occasions during the early weeks of 1906,[21] with Parham only permitting Seymour to preach to blacks.[22] During this time, Seymour continued praying that he would receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit. Though unsuccessful at the time, he remained committed to Parham's beliefs about speaking in tongues,[23] but he rejected Parham's belief in the annihilation of the wicked and in the use of tongues in evangelism. Parham understood the gift of tongues to be xenoglossy, unlearned human languages to be used for evangelistic purposes.[24][25]

Within a month of studying under Parham, Seymour received an invitation to pastor a holiness mission in Los Angeles founded by Julia Hutchins, who intended to become a missionary to Liberia.[26][27] Although Parham believed Seymour unqualified because he had not yet been baptized in the Holy Spirit, Seymour went to Los Angeles anyway.[26][27]

Azusa Street Revival

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Seymour and his wife, Jennie
主條目：Azusa Street Revival

Origins of the revival

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Seymour arrived in Los Angeles on February 22, 1906, and preached at Julia Hutchins's church two days later.[28] Seymour argued that speaking in tongues was the evidence of having received the Holy Spirit, even though he had not experienced it himself. Hutchins and J. M. Roberts, president of the Southern California Holiness Association, rejected Seymour's position as contrary to accepted holiness views and had the church doors padlocked to keep Seymour out.[28][29] Hutchins and the local holiness association called a special meeting at which they asked Seymour doctrinal questions. Among other things, the holiness leadership claimed that sanctification and the baptism of the Holy Spirit were the same thing, while Seymour remained unconvinced that the leaders themselves had been baptized in the Spirit. The association president removed Seymour from the pastorate, forbidding him to teach his doctrine of baptism in the Spirit in the holiness church. Nevertheless, he told Seymour that he was pleased Seymour was seeking baptism in the Spirit, adding, "When you receive it, please let me know, because I am interested in receiving it too."[30]

Speaking in tongues

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Seymour stayed at the home of a friend, Edward Lee, and started a prayer meeting at Lee's house.[2] When it grew too large for the house, it moved two blocks away to the home of another African American, Richard Asberry. (One attender, Jennie Evans Moore, later married Seymour.) The prayer group accepted Seymour's teaching and prayed to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.[31] To help him minister to these people as they sought the baptism of the Spirit, he contacted two friends in Houston: Lucy Farrow and Joseph Warren, who he invited to join them at the Asberry's home.[31] The core group was made up of about 15 African Americans, including five children. Others joined them, including a former Baptist named Frank Bartleman,[31] who would later publish a detailed account of the Azusa Street Revival. The size of the meetings at the Asberry's house continued to grow as word got out about the new teachings among the Los Angeles holiness sector.

 
Headline of the first ever publication of the Apostolic Faith, from September 1906

On Friday, April 6, 1906, the members of the meeting decided to add fasting to their discipline of regular prayer. They planned a ten-day fast, during which they would study Acts 2:1-4 and pray each evening until they had the same experience described in that text.[32] On April 9, Edward Lee spoke in tongues after Seymour and the newly arrived Lucy Farrow laid hands on him in Lee's home. Overjoyed, the group walked to the Asberry's house for the evening meeting. Seymour took his text, as was expected, from Acts 2:4: "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." He then went on to explain what had just happened to Edward Lee. No sooner had he completed the story, when someone else began to speak in tongues. Before the evening was over, several others, including Jennie Evans Moore, had spoken in tongues.[33] Over the next three days, the Asberry home became the focus of attention among the various networks of Wesleyan holiness people. As Frank Bartleman observed, "The news spread like fire, naturally."[34] The Azusa Street Revival had begun.[35]

Move to Azusa Street and worldwide influence

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Three days later, on April 12, after a long evening spent in prayer, Seymour himself received the baptism in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues.[36] By that time, the group was far too large for the Asberry's house; at one point the weight of the overflowing attendees caused the front porch to collapse, forcing Seymour to look for a new location.[37] The group moved to an old African Methodist Episcopal church building at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles, and while legally incorporated as the Apostolic Faith Mission, it also became known as the Azusa Street Mission.[38]

The revival quickly grew. Crowds of up to 1,500 packed into the small mission for the better part of three years. During the peak of the revival, meetings ran from mid-morning to midnight, seven days a week. Well-known names in the early Pentecostal movement like Parham, Lake, F. F. Bosworth, Thomas Hezmalhalch, and many others attended the revival and then took what they had received to the mission fields.[39][40]

 
The Apostolic Faith Mission on Azusa Street

From the beginning, the movement was racially egalitarian. Blacks and whites worshiped together at the same altar, against the normal segregation of the day.[41] Seymour claimed that the Holy Spirit was bringing people together across all social lines and boundaries to the revival. He not only rejected the existing racial barriers in favor of "unity in Christ", but he also rejected the then almost-universal barriers to women in any form of church leadership. Latinos soon began attending as well, after a Mexican-American worker received the Holy Spirit baptism on April 13, 1906.[42]

Seymour was clearly the leader of the Azusa revival in the beginning. He delegated authority to twelve overseers, ordained ministers, and commissioned missionaries. He also began publishing a newspaper, The Apostolic Faith, in September 1906. Within one year, the circulation of Seymour's paper reached 40,000 issues. With the notable exception of Parham, who was uncomfortable with the mixing of races at Azusa, many other prominent holiness preachers, like G.B. Cashwell and C.H. Mason, made the pilgrimage to Los Angeles to preach and pray alongside Seymour.[43][44]

The resulting movement became widely known as Pentecostalism, likening it to the manifestations of the Holy Spirit recorded as occurring in the first two chapters of the book of Acts, from the day of the Feast of Pentecost onwards. By the end of 1909, the movement had achieved geographical ubiquity. Every region of the United States had a Pentecostal presence, with additional missions planted in 50 nations worldwide.[45]

Decline of the Azusa Street Revival

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The leaders of the Apostolic Faith Mission. Seymour is front row, second from the right; Jennie is back row, third from left.

Opposition

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As with most new religious movements, the Azusa Street Revival was not without controversy. From the beginning, they had to withstand attacks by rival religious groups, the local press, and those against racial integration. Newspapers published such titles as, "Religious Fanaticism Creates Wild Scene", "Holy Kickers Carry on Mad Orgies", "All Night Meetings in Azusa Street Church, Negroes and Whites Give Themselves Over to Strange Outbursts of Zeal", "Whites And Blacks Mix in a Religious Frenzy", "Wives Say They They Left Husbands to Follow Preacher", "Disgusting Scenes at Azusa Street Church", and "Crazed Girls in Arms of Black Men."[46]

In October 1906, Parham arrived at the Azusa Street Mission. After observing some ecstatic practices and racial mixing in worship, he went to the pulpit and began to preach that God was disgusted at the state of the revival.[47] Seymour refused to back down from his doctrines, and Parham then denounced the Azusa revival as false.[48] Parham launched a racially tinged assault on what he deemed fanaticism and religious anarchy and demanded reforms that included the outright dismissal of many of Seymour's key aides.[49] He claimed that Seymour had corrupted the teaching of tongue-speech; Parham believed that the spoken tongues had to be a recognizable human language (xenoglossy), while Seymour's theology allowed for a divine language that could not be understood by human ears (glossolalia).[50] Parham denounced these views as unscriptural. Parham also preached against the racial mixing of the revival. Seymour responded by recanting an earlier acknowledgement of Parham's authority and declaring the Holy Ghost to be the mission's only leader.[49]

Parham became the most far-reaching challenge to Seymour's leadership. Seymour dismissed Parham from the mission, but he stayed in town long enough to establish a small, competing congregation just blocks from the mission. Parham also appealed to the press to recognize him as the leader of the movement.[51] The Seymour-Parham breakup marked the beginning of the end of Parham's prominence in the movement; however, as it turned out, Azusa's days were also numbered. The peak of the revival spanned from 1906 through 1908.[49]

Apostolic Faith publication

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The revival at Azusa continued to grow until 1908. Parham and other evangelists such as Florence Crawford (Seymour's former State Director of the Pacific Coast Apostolic Faith Movement) began discrediting the movement through doctrinal differences. After breaking her relationship with Seymour in 1907, Crawford quickly formed an independent work in Portland, Oregon, under the same name Seymour used, Apostolic Faith Movement. She then began to undermine Seymour's undisputed leadership of the movement on the Pacific Coast.[52] Seymour's marriage to Jennie Evans Moore on May 13, 1908, did not sit well with his secretary, Clara Lum, who had already begun showing allegiance to Crawford. Lum had arguably the most powerful position outside of Seymour in the movement because of her extensive experience and abilities, particularly as editor of the newspaper.[53] Disapproving of Seymour's action, Lum resigned her post, stole the paper's mailing list and joined Crawford in Portland, where they began publishing The Apostolic Faith newspaper without Seymour.[54]

Without possession of the mailing list, Seymour lost control of the newspaper, and his authority over the burgeoning Pentecostal revival began to slip.[43] Lum and Crawford refused to give control of the paper back to Seymour when he and others went to Portland, and with no recourse left to him, he returned empty-handed to Los Angeles.[55] The loss of the newsletter was a crippling blow to the Azusa revival. Seymour remained the pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission until his death, but his significant contributions to the larger American Pentecostal movement were largely minimized by his contemporaries.[43][56]

Seymour's last years

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Another blow to Seymour's authority in the later movement was the split between Seymour and William Durham. During one of Seymour's revival tours in 1911, he asked Durham if he would serve as the visiting preacher while he was gone. Durham agreed, but his more extreme views on sanctification caused a schism in the church.[57] Seymour was asked to return to Azusa immediately, while his wife Jennie padlocked Durham out of the mission.[58] Durham began to attack Seymour publicly, launching a rhetoric campaign claiming that Seymour was no longer following the will of God and was not fit to be a leader. This did further harm to Seymour's ministry.[59] Even after Durham's sudden death in 1912, the Pentecostal community in Los Angeles remained split.[60]

Although his message had spread around the world, by 1914 Seymour's congregation on Azusa Street had shrunk to a small, local, Black American church. He continued as pastor until his death.[61] On September 28, 1922, Seymour suffered two heart attacks and died in his wife's arms.[62] He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in East Los Angeles, near influential Pentecostal preacher Francisco Olazábal.[63] Jennie Seymour died on July 2, 1936, and was buried next to her husband.[64]

Legacy and influence

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Under Seymour's leadership, the Azusa Street Mission sent evangelists throughout the United States, spreading the Pentecostal message from Los Angeles all over the United States and resulting in many missions that modeled themselves after Azusa.[65][66] By 1914, Pentecostalism had spread to almost every major U.S. city.[67] All major American Pentecostal denominations can trace their origins to Azusa Street, including the Assemblies of God, the Church of God in Christ, the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, the United Pentecostal Church, and the Pentecostal Holiness Church.[68]

The mission's doctrines quickly went around the world, with many of the missionaries spreading the new message having themselves been at the Azusa Street revival.[69] By 1907, missionaries from Azusa Street had reached Mexico, Canada, Western Europe, the Middle East, West Africa, and parts of Asia.[70] In the 21st century, estimates of worldwide Pentecostal membership range from 115 million to 400 million.[66]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Krapohl & Lippy 1999，第300-301頁.
  2. ^ 2.0 2.1 Robeck 2006，第17頁.
  3. ^ Espinosa 2014，第47頁.
  4. ^ Robeck 2006，第21-24. At the time, the Roman Catholic Church remained dominant in southeast Louisiana because of early French settlement. Many slaves were nominally converted to Catholic Christianity, but a considerable number of these converts "filled that Christian form and ritual with double meanings"頁.
  5. ^ Robeck 2006，第25頁.
  6. ^ Synan & Fox 2012，第26-29頁.
  7. ^ Espinosa 2014，第25頁.
  8. ^ Synan & Fox 2012，第49頁.
  9. ^ Robeck 2006，第28頁.
  10. ^ Robins 2010，第25頁.
  11. ^ Robeck 2006，第31頁.
  12. ^ Robeck 2006，第33頁.
  13. ^ Synan & Fox 2012，第32頁.
  14. ^ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Robeck 2006，第35頁.
  15. ^ Synan & Fox 2012，第33頁.
  16. ^ Robins 2010，第22頁.
  17. ^ Robins 2010，第23-24頁.
  18. ^ Krapohl & Lippy 1999，第287頁.
  19. ^ Robeck 2006，第44-45頁.
  20. ^ Espinosa 2014，第50頁.
  21. ^ 21.0 21.1 Robins 2010，第26頁.
  22. ^ Robeck 2006，第46-49頁.
  23. ^ Robeck 2006，第48頁.
  24. ^ Robeck 2006，第49-50頁.
  25. ^ Synan & Fox 2012，第354頁.
  26. ^ 26.0 26.1 Robeck 2006，第50頁.
  27. ^ 27.0 27.1 Espinosa 2014，第51頁.
  28. ^ 28.0 28.1 Espinosa 2014，第53頁.
  29. ^ Robeck 2006，第62-63頁.
  30. ^ Robeck 2006，第63-64頁.
  31. ^ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Robeck 2006，第65頁.
  32. ^ Robeck 2006，第66頁.
  33. ^ Robeck 2006，第67-68頁.
  34. ^ Robeck 2006，第69頁.
  35. ^ Espinosa 2014，第55頁.
  36. ^ Espinosa 2014，第56頁.
  37. ^ Espinosa 2014，第57頁.
  38. ^ Robeck 2006，第88頁.
  39. ^ Robins 2010，第27頁.
  40. ^ Robeck 2006，第247,274頁.
  41. ^ Synan & Fox 2012，第100頁.
  42. ^ Espinosa 2014，第59頁.
  43. ^ 43.0 43.1 43.2 Krapohl & Lippy 1999，第301頁.
  44. ^ McGee, Gary. William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival. The Enrichment Journal. [November 19, 2011]. 
  45. ^ Robins 2010，第30頁.
  46. ^ Robeck 2006，第125-126頁.
  47. ^ Espinosa 2014，第96-97頁.
  48. ^ Espinosa 2014，第97頁.
  49. ^ 49.0 49.1 49.2 Robins 2010，第28頁.
  50. ^ Espinosa 2014，第99頁.
  51. ^ Robeck 2006，第127頁.
  52. ^ Robeck 2006，第299-300頁.
  53. ^ Robeck 2006，第104頁.
  54. ^ Robeck 2006，第304-305頁.
  55. ^ Robeck 2006，第305頁.
  56. ^ Espinosa 2014，第114頁.
  57. ^ Robeck 2006，第316頁.
  58. ^ Blumhofer, "William H. Durham," in Goff and Wacker, Portraits of a Generation, 138-39.
  59. ^ Espinosa 2014，第122-123頁.
  60. ^ Espinosa 2014，第123頁.
  61. ^ Hyatt 2002，第145頁.
  62. ^ Espinosa 2014，第145頁.
  63. ^ Espinosa, Gaston (1999). ""El Azteca": Francisco Olazabal and Latino Pentecostal Charisma, Power, and Faith Healing in the Borderlands". Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
  64. ^ Espinosa 2014，第148頁.
  65. ^ Robeck 2006，第7頁.
  66. ^ 66.0 66.1 Borlase 2006，第235頁.
  67. ^ Espinosa 2014，第70頁.
  68. ^ Robeck 2006，第10–11頁.
  69. ^ Robeck 2006，第268頁.
  70. ^ Robeck 2006，第8頁.

References

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