Abstract
The Pentecostal churches in Norway are comparatively small, and yet the influence of the Norwegian Pentecostals on global Pentecostalism has been significant. Pentecostalism is now the largest Free Church in Norway and the church that Barratt built to house the new tradition is still in use in central Oslo (then Kristiania) and still innovative in its mission and radical in its spirituality.' This essay will trace the development of the tradition founded by a de-frocked Methodist clergyman, persecuted in the press and attacked from the left and the right, to its role in defining the theology and praxis of Pentecostalism around the world. Contrary to what might be expected, the Norwegian Pentecostal church was not founded by North American missionaries, nor have the Norwegian Pentecostal churches ever been controlled by the North American churches. Like other European Pentecostal churches, indeed as the majority of the Pentecostal churches around the world, Norwegian Pentecostalism is and has always been an indigenous religious tradition with neither financial nor moral support from foreign churches.
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