The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

      Charles Edwin Jones has been a leading participant in a generation of historians seeking to introduce Wesleyan-Holiness studies to scholarly consideration and to interpret that tradition to itself.  While raising the scholarly level of this discussion, Jones and his colleagues have remained self-consciously animated by questions arising from the subjective core of their location within this religious tradition.  As Jones himself has written, “Most social commentary is in one way or another biographical.” 1       Charles was born to Dove and Dess Jones who had migrated from Arkansas to Kansas City, MO. in early 1924, the peak decade of…