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Kimberly Alexander

Associate Professor of Church History

Email: kalexander@regent.edu
Phone: 757.352.4410

Education

  • Ph.D., The Open University (UK)/St. John' College (Nottingham)
  • M.A., Church of God Theological Seminary
  • B.S., Winthrop University

Courses Taught

  • Church History and Renewal 1
  • Church History and Renewal 2
  • Healing in the Christian Tradition
  • Women in Christian and Pentecostal History

Research Interests

I would welcome working with doctoral students in these and related areas.

  • Healing Theology and Practice
  • Pentecostal Theology and History
  • Wesleyan Theology and History
  • 19th Century Holiness and Healing Movements
  • Women in Holiness-Pentecostal History
  • Christian Practices
  • Missional Church

Encyclopedia, Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Our Congregations” in Portrait and Prospect: Church of God Pastors in the 21st Century, James P. Bowers, ed. Cleveland, TN: Center for Pentecostal Leadership and Care, 2004.
  • “Pentecostal Healing at the Mission” in The Azusa Street Revival and its Legacy , Harold Hunter and Cecil M. Roebuck, eds. Cleveland, TN: Pathway Press, 2006.
  • “’The Almost Pentecostal’: The Future of the Church of God in the United States” in The Future of Pentecostalism in the United States, Eric Patterson and Edmond Rybarczyk, eds., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
  • “Boundless Love Divine: A Re-Evaluation of Early Understandings of the Experience of  Spirit Baptism” in Passover, Pentecost & Parousia: Studies in Celebration of the Life and Ministry of R. Hollis Gause, S. J. Land, R. D. Moore, J. C. Thomas, eds. Blandford Forum, Dorset: Deo,2010.
  • “Under the Authority of the Word and In Response to the Spirit: The Written Work and Worship of R. Hollis Gause” in Passover, Pentecost & Parousia: Studies in Celebration of the Life and Ministry of R. Hollis Gause, S. J. Land, R. D. Moore, J. C. Thomas, eds. Blandford Forum, Dorset: Deo, 2010.
  • “Restoration, Accommodation and Innovation: The Contributions of Aimee Semple McPherson” in From Aldersgate to Azusa Street: Wesleyan, Holiness and Pentecostal Visions of the New Humanity, An Interdisciplinary Approach, Henry H. Knight, ed. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2010.
  • “A Baptism of Divine Love: The Pentecostal Experience of Spirit Baptism” in Re-Thinking Wesleyan Theology, Nathan Crawford, ed. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, forthcoming.
  • “Spirit-Filled Healing Ministry in the 21st Century: From Healing Homes to the City of Faith and Beyond”, with Thomson K. Mathew in Spirit Empowered Christianity in the 21st Century, Vinson Synan, ed. Charisma House, 2011.
  • “The Pentecostal Healing Community” in Toward a Pentecostal Ecclesiology: The Church and the Five-fold Gospel, J. C. Thomas, ed. Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK: Deo., 2010.
  • “R. A. N. Kydd, Healing Through the Centuries: A Critical Review,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 16 (April 2000): 117-127.
  • “ ‘And the Signs Are Following’: Mark 16.9-20 - A Journey Into Pentecostal Hermeneutics” Co-authored with John Christopher Thomas. Journal of Pentecostal Theology 11.2 (April 2003): 147-170.
  • “Three Hundred Years of Holiness and Healing”. Asbury Theological Journal Vol. 58, No. 2 (Fall 2003): 57-77.
  • “How Wide Thy Healing Streams Are Spread”. Asbury Theological Journal Vol. 59. No. 1 (Spring 2004): 63-76.
  • “Matters of Conscience, Matters of Unity, Matters of Orthodoxy: Trinity and Water Baptism in Early Pentecostal Theology and Practice”. Journal of Pentecostal Theology 17:1 (October 2008): 48-69.
  • “Pentecostalism” in Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010.

Published Books

  • Pentecostal Healing: Models of Theology and Practice. Blandford Forum, Dorset: Deo, 2006.
  • Women in Pentecostal Leadership (with R. Hollis Gause). Cleveland, TN: Center for Pentecostal Leadership and Care, 2006.

Forthcoming Books

  • “Race and Gender Equality in a Classical Pentecostal Denomination: How Godly Love Flourished and Foundered”. Co-authored with James P. Bowers in Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities, edited by Amos Yong and Matthew T. Lee. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Society for Pentecostal Studies Presidential Address: “Standing at the Crossroads: The Battle for the Heart and Soul of Pentecostalism” in Pneuma.
  • “Spirit Baptism, Socialization and Godly Love in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN)” co-authored with James P. Bowers, Mark J. Cartledge in Pentecostudies.

Academic Memberships and Affiliations:

  • American Academy of Religion
  • Society for Pentecostal Studies, Immediate Past-President
  • Wesleyan Theological Society
  • Editorial Board, Aldersgate Papers, Australian Centre for Wesleyan Research