The Source Library: 100 References, Graded by Deniability¶

What this is¶

One hundred references to the miraculous — medical, historical, patristic, journalistic, and scholarly — each with a working link and a grade. It is the evidence wing of the casebook: not an argument in itself, but the material an argument has to reckon with.

The library exists because the usual shape of this debate is a standoff of anecdotes. One side says, "We have seen it." The other says, "We have not." A library does not settle that. But it changes the question from whether there are reports to which reports survive examination — and that is a question that can be worked through.

How the grading works¶

Every entry is graded from 1 to 5 for deniability. Deniability is a measure of how easily the reference can be set aside:

Tier 1 — lowest deniabilityPeer-reviewed research, independent primary texts, hostile investigations, and scholarship that does not assume the conclusion. Hard to dismiss.

Tier 2 — low deniabilityDocumented and near-contemporary: measured studies, hostile newspapers, missionary archives, contemporary histories.

Tier 3 — moderateReported and secondary: homilies, chronicles, revival narratives, reference works. Serious, but not contemporaneous documentation.

Tier 4 — highLater hagiography, sermon illustration, pre-critical biography. Written to edify, hard to check.

Tier 5 — highestLegend, private anecdote, devotional report. Included for completeness, not as load-bearing evidence.

Three questions produce the grade:

Proximity. How close is the source to the event it reports — a physician who examined the patient, or a preacher retelling the story a generation later?
Independence. Is the source free of a stake in the conclusion? A secular medical committee and a ministry newsletter are not the same kind of witness.
Cost of dismissal. How much would you have to explain away to reject it? A peer-reviewed paper by authors who do not believe in miracles is expensive to dismiss. A legend is cheap.

The grades are editorial judgments, not measurements. They are stated so that you can disagree with them, and the reasoning is given in the "What it documents" column so that you can re-grade them yourself.

A handful of entries are hostile to particular claims, or record the absence of the gifts in a given century. They are marked against or context in the source line and sit where their grade puts them, not where their sympathies would put them. A hostile investigation can be hard to dismiss; a single father's report of decline can be easy to dismiss as evidence for continuation. The grade measures the strength of the reference, not its friendliness.

The order of the list¶

The library is in descending order of deniability. It begins with the claims a sceptic can set aside most easily and ends with the material that is hardest to explain. Entry #1 is the most deniable; entry #100 is the least.

That is deliberate. A list that begins with its strongest evidence asks you to be impressed before you have seen the range of the material. A list that begins with its weakest lets you do what a careful reader does anyway — discard what does not hold, and keep reading — until the material that does hold is in front of you.

If you want the strongest first, read from the bottom up. If you want the summary, the ten entries below are the ones the editors would keep if they could keep only ten.

If you only read ten¶

Irenaeus, Against Heresies II.32.4 (c. 180) — a second-century bishop describing prophecy, healing, and the raising of the dead in the churches.
Augustine, City of God XXII.8 (c. 420) — the miracle records at Hippo, read aloud in church and written down at Augustine's order.
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History V.7 (c. 320) — Eusebius quoting Irenaeus on gifts that remained "even until that time."
Craig Keener, Miracles (2011) — the largest cross-cultural collection of miracle reports assembled by a New Testament scholar.
Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer (2012) — an empirical programme for testing healing claims, published by Harvard.
The Mozambique study (2010) — a peer-reviewed field study of prayer and sensory impairment.
Robert Bruce Mullin, Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination (1996) — how the "miracles ceased" position was constructed, and how it collapsed.
Pew Research Center, Spirit and Power (2006) — the ten-country survey in which majorities of Pentecostals report witnessed or experienced healing.
The Apostolic Faith, 1906–1908 (Library of Congress record) — the archive record of the Azusa Street newspaper, with its reports of tongues and healing.
The Fuller MC510 archive (1981–1989) — the finding aid for the "Signs and Wonders" course that put the question on the theological map in the 1980s.

What is not here¶

This library deliberately excludes Marian apparitions and shrine cures, including Lourdes and Fatima. That is a theological and editorial decision, not an oversight: prayer to Mary is not the pattern of apostolic Christianity, and Scripture warns that real signs can accompany false religion. The reasoning is set out in counterfeit miracles. The case is aimed at conservative Evangelicals, and it is built on Scripture, the patristic reports, the Reformation and revival record, and documented Protestant cases.

The library¶

Tier 5 — highest deniability¶

The easiest to dismiss: legend, private anecdote, and devotional report. Included for completeness, not as load-bearing evidence.

#	Source	What it documents	Den.
1	John Chrysostom, Homilies on 1 Corinthians 29 c. 392–397, primary text · context	Says the passage is obscure "by their cessation, being such as then used to occur but now no longer take place."	5
2	Jacobus de Voragine, Golden Legend (St Nicholas) c. 1260–1275, primary text	A dead debtor is raised through Nicholas; healing oil flows from his tomb; Caxton's 1483 English.	5
3	Like a Mighty Wind Mel Tari, as told to Cliff Dudley / Creation House, 1971, book	Participant's narrative of the 1965 Timor revival, claiming healings, resurrections, multiplied food and water turned to wine.	5

Tier 4 — high deniability¶

Later hagiography, sermon illustration, and pre-critical biography. Real witnesses, but written to edify and hard to check.

#	Source	What it documents	Den.
4	How It Started The Ark and The Dove Worldwide (Duquesne Weekend retreat centre), n.d., report	Retreat centre's own account of the February 1967 Duquesne Weekend and reported tongues, prophecy and praise.	4
5	Life of St. Anthony Athanasius, c. 360, primary text	Athanasius's Life reports Antony's healings and discernment of spirits; the model for monastic hagiography.	4
6	On the Life of St. Martin Sulpicius Severus, c. 397, primary text	A contemporary biography reporting healings, exorcisms, and resurrections attributed to Martin of Tours.	4
7	Gregory of Tours, Histories VI.6 c. 575–591, primary text	The recluse Hospicius heals a deaf-mute; Gregory says he had it "from the lips" of the healed man.	4
8	William of St-Thierry/Geoffrey of Auxerre, Vita Prima IV c. 1153–1155, primary text	Bernard's prophecies and healings, including a demon expelled at Bella-Vallis by his stolen robe.	4
9	Thomas Aquinas, Summa II-II q.178 1265–1272, primary text	Defines the "grace of miracles" as gratuitous grace for others' benefit, worked "sometimes by authority, sometimes by prayer."	4
10	The Journal of John Wesley John Wesley, 1738–1790, primary text	Wesley's own journals record healings, deliverances, and extraordinary providences reported across the eighteenth-century revival.	4

Tier 3 — moderate deniability¶

Reported and secondary: homilies, chronicles, revival narratives, and reference works. Serious, but not contemporaneous documentation.

#	Source	What it documents	Den.
11	6. Miracle machine (World of Secrets: The Disciples) BBC Eye Investigations / BBC World Service, 2023, documentary · against	BBC Eye investigation into TB Joshua's healing "miracle machine", using whistleblowing disciples; hostile to the miracle claims.	3
12	Didache 10–13 c. 100–120, primary text	A prophet who "speaks in the Spirit" leads thanksgiving; true prophets are supported as the church's "high priests."	3
13	Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 39 c. 155–160, primary text	Converts "receive gifts, each as he is worthy": understanding, counsel, strength, healing, foreknowledge, teaching, fear of God.	3
14	Martyrdom of Polycarp 9, 15–16 c. 155–160, primary text	A voice from heaven strengthens Polycarp; fire arches around him; a dove comes out when he is pierced.	3
15	Novatian, On the Trinity 29 c. 250–258, primary text	The Spirit "places prophets in the Church, instructs teachers, directs tongues, gives powers and healings" — present tense.	3
16	Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 16.12, 19 c. 347–350, primary text	The Spirit gives one man power "to drive away devils"; an exorcist's breath becomes "as fire" to demons.	3
17	Life of St. Hilarion Jerome / New Advent (NPNF translation), c. 390, primary text	Jerome's Life reports Hilarion healing a blind woman and a paralysed quarryman, and expelling demons at named Gaza-area sites.	3
18	Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History IV.16 c. 440–450, primary text	Arsacius expels a demon from a sword-wielding man at Nicomedia by naming Christ; he cites eyewitness hearers.	3
19	Gregory the Great, Dialogues II.1 (with Prologue) c. 593–594, primary text	Benedict's broken sieve is restored by prayer; Gregory claims four named disciples as his informants.	3
20	Bede, Ecclesiastical History III.2, 9, 11 731, primary text	Oswald's cross heals a boy's lame arm; cures at his death-place; demons driven out by his bones.	3
21	A Journal or Historical Account of the Life … of George Fox George Fox / J. Sowle, London, 1709, primary text	Fox recounts a woman "healed by our Visits, and Laying on of Hands" after physicians had given her up.	3
22	The Story of the Welsh Revival as Told by Eyewitnesses W. T. Stead, G. C. Morgan, Arthur Goodrich et al. / F. H. Revell, 1905, primary text	Eyewitness and press accounts of the 1904–05 Welsh revival, including claims that young men were seeing visions.	3
23	Miracles The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, reference	Reference entry on the definition and evidence of miracles, written when the modern debate over miracles was taking shape.	3
24	The Korean Pentecost and the Sufferings Which Followed William Newton Blair / Banner of Truth Trust, 1977, book	Missionary account of the 1907 Pyongyang revival, reprinting Blair's 1910 report on the Korean Pentecost.	3
25	One Woman's Publicity Push : Charismatics: Parishioner Jean Stone persuaded Time and Newsweek to write about the uproar in Van Nuys. Los Angeles Times, 1992, newspaper	Times feature crediting parishioner Jean Stone with publicising the 1960 Van Nuys tongues controversy nationally.	3
26	Surprised by the Power of the Spirit Jack Deere, 1993, scholarship	Former Dallas Seminary professor recounts reversing his cessationism and defends healing and prophecy today.	3
27	Airport church lands converts: Men, women and children are being bowled over by the Holy Spirit, as it makes itself felt in Scotland John Price / The Independent, 1994, newspaper	British newspaper report on the Toronto Blessing reaching Scotland, with eyewitness description of the meetings.	3
28	Laughing for the Lord Richard N. Ostling / TIME, 1994, report	TIME's report on the Toronto Blessing reaching London, describing the physical phenomena and sceptical reactions.	3
29	Brownsville Revival Margaret M. Poloma / Contemporary American Religion (Macmillan), via Encyclopedia.com, c. 2000, reference	Reference entry by a sociologist describing Brownsville's 1995 origin, phenomena and reported conversions.	3
30	Pentecostal by Default? Reflections on Contemporary Christianity in China Gotthard Oblau / German East Asia Mission (doam.org), 2001, report	Field report arguing Chinese grassroots churches are functionally Pentecostal, with healing prayer central to conversion.	3
31	ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (1878 - 1951), 'Y Diwygiwr' (the Revivalist) revivalist preacher Gomer Morgan Roberts / Dictionary of Welsh Biography (NLW), 2001, reference	Scholarly biographical entry on Evan Roberts, the 1904–05 revival's spread and its contested effects.	3
32	"The World Is Upside Down": Women's Participation in Religious Movements in Mozambique Christy K. Schuetze — University of Pennsylvania, 2010, peer-reviewed	Ethnographic dissertation on Pentecostal and spirit-medium healing networks in Gorongosa, central Mozambique.	3
33	Miracles: the credibility of the New Testament accounts Craig S. Keener — Baker Academic, 2 vols., ISBN 9780801039522, 2011, book	Bibliographic record for Keener's two-volume Baker Academic study (2011, 1172 pp., ISBN 9780801039522).	3
34	Sounds from Heaven: The Revival on the Isle of Lewis, 1949–1952 Colin Peckham / Christian Focus, 2011, book	History and twenty-four first-hand testimonies of the 1949–52 Lewis (Hebrides) revival.	3
35	Testing Prayer: Science and Healing Candy Gunther Brown — Harvard University Press, 2012, book	Harvard University Press monograph presenting Brown's multi-method empirical programme for testing prayer's measurable health effects.	3
36	Book Review: Craig S. Keener, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts Hughson T. Ong — Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 9, 2013, peer-reviewed	Peer review of Keener; accepts the compilation's value, presses the evidential gaps and unaddressed atheist objections.	3
37	13 de outubro: O Milagre do Sol na imprensa de 1917 Agência ECCLESIA, 2017, journalism	Catholic news agency survey of how Portuguese papers, anticlerical and Catholic, reported the 13 October 1917 events.	3
38	Practicing the Power Sam Storms, 2017, scholarship	Practical theology of exercising prophecy, healing and tongues in a local church without fanaticism or schism.	3

Tier 2 — low deniability¶

Documented and near-contemporary: notarised processes, medical examinations, hostile newspapers, missionary archives, and peer-reviewed studies.

#	Source	What it documents	Den.
39	Spontaneous Regression of Cancer W. H. Cole — CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 24(5):274–279, 1974, peer-reviewed · context	Cole's own summary of 176 spontaneous cancer regressions, the standard citation for "cancer sometimes vanishes untreated".	2
40	Papias, Fragments VI (via Eusebius HE III.39) c. 110–140, primary text	Papias "relates that a dead man was raised to life in his day"; Justus Barsabas drank poison unharmed.	2
41	Quadratus, Apology, quoted in Eusebius HE IV.3 c. 124–125, primary text	Those healed and raised by Christ "were alive for quite a while, so that some lived even to our day."	2
42	Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 85 c. 155–160, primary text	Every demon exorcised in Jesus' name "is overcome and subdued"; exorcism by the patriarchs' names fails.	2
43	Justin Martyr, Second Apology 6 c. 155–160, primary text	"Numberless demoniacs" in Rome and everywhere are healed and exorcised by Christians, unlike pagan exorcists.	2
44	Tertullian, Apology 23 c. 197, primary text	A demoniac produced in court will confess he is a demon when commanded by "a follower of Christ."	2
45	Origen, Contra Celsum I.46 c. 248, primary text	"Traces" of the Spirit remain: Christians "expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events."	2
46	Origen, Contra Celsum III.24 c. 248, primary text	"We too have seen many persons freed" from madness and chronic illness by invoking God and Jesus.	2
47	Origen, Contra Celsum VII.4 c. 248, primary text	Christians expel demons "by prayer and simple adjurations," often unlettered men, showing grace in Christ's word.	2
48	The Year of Grace: A History of the Ulster Revival of 1859 William Gibson / A. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1860, primary text	Contemporary clerical history of the 1859 Ulster revival, recording restored eyesight, a cured stammer and bedridden converts recovering.	2
49	'Revival Sketches' Gwilym Hughes / National Library of Wales (NLW MS 8466C), 1904–1905, archive	National Library of Wales file of 1904–05 press cuttings on the Welsh revival, compiled for publication.	2
50	The Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, April 18, 1906, page 17 Newspapers.com (McClatchy), 1906, newspaper	Scan of the Los Angeles Times page carrying the 18 April 1906 "Weird Babel of Tongues" report.	2
51	The Korean revival: an account of the revival in the Korean churches in 1907 George Heber Jones & W. Arthur Noble / Board of Foreign Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1910, book	Missionary account of the 1907 Pyongyang revival, including confession, repentance and claimed manifestations of the Spirit.	2
52	Church, John Edward (Joe) Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, 1924–1989 (collection), archive	Papers of CMS Ruanda Mission doctor Joe Church, a leading European figure in the East African Revival.	2
53	Religion: Speaking in Tongues TIME, 1960, newspaper	1960 report on Dennis Bennett's St Mark's, Van Nuys, describing tongues and interpretation in a parishioner's apartment.	2
54	Demythologizing Indonesia's Revival Edward E. Plowman / Christianity Today, 1973, report	Critical report on the Timor revival that still records an anthropologist conceding healings occurred, though not resurrections.	2
55	Adventures in God John G. Lake (contrib. Wilford H. Reidt) / Northwest University archives, 1981, archive	Lake's own narrative of his healing ministry, including "How I came to devote my life to the ministry of healing".	2
56	Fire from Heaven Harvey Cox, 1995, scholarship	Interprets global Pentecostalism as a recovery of "primal" religious experience; sympathetic but not credulous.	2
57	Renewal Theology J. Rodman Williams, 1996 (3 vols. in 1), scholarship	First full systematic theology written from a charismatic perspective, integrating gifts into ecclesiology and eschatology.	2
58	The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts: Then and Now Max Turner, 1996, scholarship	Argues Luke–Acts and Paul warrant continuing prophetic and healing gifts, while rejecting classic Pentecostal distinctives.	2
59	Fits, Trances, and Visions Ann Taves, 1999, scholarship	Traces how trances, visions and tongues were explained as natural or religious in Anglo-American culture, 1740–1910.	2
60	The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today Wayne Grudem, 2000 (rev.), scholarship	Distinguishes fallible congregational prophecy from canonical revelation, so prophetic gifts can continue without threatening Scripture.	2
61	Gift and Giver Craig S. Keener, 2001; repackaged 2020, scholarship	Irenic survey of spiritual gifts arguing for the Spirit's ongoing empowerment while engaging cessationist arguments directly.	2
62	The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh Amos Yong, 2005, scholarship	Pentecostal theology arguing the movement's Spirit-experience yields a global, contextual theology for the whole church.	2
63	Pentecostal Memorial Is Poised for a Revival Los Angeles Times, 2006, newspaper	Times feature on the Azusa Street centennial quoting the 1906 "Weird Babel of Tongues" article at length.	2
64	Rowdy revivalist Travis Reed / Associated Press, via The Spokesman-Review, 2008, newspaper	AP report on Todd Bentley's Lakeland revival noting that most healing claims could not be independently verified.	2
65	Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Proximal Intercessory Prayer (STEPP) on Auditory and Visual Impairments in Rural Mozambique Brown, Mory, Williams, McClymond — Southern Medical Journal 103(9):864–869, 2010, peer-reviewed	Publisher record: p<0.003 hearing and p<0.02 vision gains; DOI 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181e73fea.	2
66	Study of the therapeutic effects of proximal intercessory prayer (STEPP) on auditory and visual impairments in rural Mozambique C. G. Brown, S. C. Mory, R. Williams, M. J. McClymond — Indiana University ScholarWorks, 2010, peer-reviewed	Full manuscript of the Mozambique study reporting significant audiometric and visual-acuity gains after proximal intercessory prayer.	2
67	From illness to miracle: ethnography of therapeutic solutions among evangelicals in Boa Vista, Roraima Carlos Alberto Borges da Silva and Maria da Penha Vasconcellos / Saúde e Sociedade 22(4), 2013, peer-reviewed	Ethnography of Brazilian evangelicals claiming divine healing, analysing illness narratives and their therapeutic choices.	2
68	Review of Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing Jonathan R. Baer / H-Net, H-Pentecostalism, 2013, peer-reviewed	Peer-reviewed review summarising Brown's methods and the limits of medical documentation for healing claims.	2
69	Healing in Herero culture and Namibian African independent churches Selaelo T. Kgatla and Jinho Park / HTS Teologiese Studies 71(3), 2015, peer-reviewed	Case studies of healing-centred Namibian African Independent Churches, documenting healing rituals and prophetic ministry.	2
70	Oral Roberts Vertical File Finding Aid Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University, 2019, archive	Finding aid to ORU's vertical file of press clippings, mailing and ephemera on Oral Roberts.	2
71	Pentecostal church growth in Nigeria amid Roman Catholicism Favour C. Uroko / African Journal of Pentecostal Studies 1(1), 2024, peer-reviewed	Finds signs, wonders and public testimonies central to Nigerian Pentecostal growth at Roman Catholicism's expense.	2

Tier 1 — lowest deniability¶

The hardest to dismiss: medical bodies with sceptical members, peer-reviewed research, independent primary texts, and scholarship that does not assume the conclusion.

#	Source	What it documents	Den.
72	Miracles and money: A look inside televangelist Benny Hinn's ministry CBC Radio / Front Burner (Bob McKeown), 2020, journalism · against	Investigative reporting that Hinn's staff screened out visibly disabled people and that claimed cures went unverified.	1
73	William Bradley Coley, MD, and the phenomenon of spontaneous regression L. F. Vernon — ImmunoTargets and Therapy 7:29–34, 2018, peer-reviewed · context	Reviews Everson and Cole's 176 histologically confirmed spontaneous cancer regressions, establishing that untreated malignancy sometimes disappears.	1
74	Irenaeus, Against Heresies II.32.4 c. 180, primary text	Christians "drive out devils," see visions and prophesy, heal by laying on hands, and "the dead even have been raised up."	1
75	Irenaeus, Against Heresies V.6.1 c. 180, primary text	"Many brethren in the Church" possess prophetic gifts and "speak all kinds of languages," disclosing hidden things.	1
76	Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History V.7 c. 313–325, primary text	Quotes Irenaeus on ongoing charismata; "various gifts remained among those who were worthy even until that time."	1
77	Augustine, City of God XXII.8–9 413–426, primary text	Miracles "even now" in Christ's name: blind man healed at Milan, Innocentius at Carthage, ~70 recorded at Hippo.	1
78	Digital Publications Guide — The Apostolic Faith (Azusa Street) Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center (iFPHC), 1906–1908, archive	Digitised run of The Apostolic Faith (13 issues) reporting tongues, healings and prophecies at Azusa Street.	1
79	The Apostolic Faith (Los Angeles, Cal.) 1906-1908 Library of Congress, Directory of U.S. Newspapers, 1906–1908, archive	Library of Congress record for the Azusa Street mission's newspaper, establishing its publication dates and official status.	1
80	All Things Are Possible: The Healing & Charismatic Revivals in Modern America David Edwin Harrell / Indiana University Press, 1978, book	Scholarly history of twentieth-century American healing and charismatic revivals, their leaders, audiences and practices.	1
81	MC510 Signs and Wonders Collection, 1981-1989 Fuller Theological Seminary / Online Archive of California, 1981–1989, archive	Finding aid for Fuller's MC510 files: Wimber–Wagner course materials, records and correspondence on signs and wonders.	1
82	Showing the Spirit D. A. Carson, 1987, scholarship	Exposition of 1 Cor 12–14 that tests both charismatic and non-charismatic readings against the text and refuses both extremes.	1
83	God's Empowering Presence Gordon D. Fee, 1994, scholarship	Exegesis of every Pauline Spirit text; the Spirit as eschatological empowering presence, with gifts integral to church life.	1
84	Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination Robert Bruce Mullin, 1996, scholarship	Shows the Protestant "miracles ceased" position is a post-Reformation construction that largely collapsed in the nineteenth century.	1
85	Inspecting the Fruit of the "Toronto Blessing": A Sociological Perspective Margaret M. Poloma / Brill, Pneuma 20:1, 1998, peer-reviewed	Sociological survey of Toronto pilgrims measuring reported healings and their correlates; analysis, not medical verification.	1
86	Heaven Below Grant Wacker, 2001, scholarship	Ethnographic history of early Pentecostals, neither debunking nor apologizing, showing how they sustained miracle claims in daily life.	1
87	Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish David Martin / Blackwell (Wiley), 2001, book	Sociological account of Pentecostalism's global spread and its appeal across five continents.	1
88	Miracles Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002, rev. 2024, reference	Philosophical survey of the miracle debate, including Hume, prior probability, and the evidential problem.	1
89	The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity Philip Jenkins / Oxford University Press, 2002, book	Argues Global South Christianity is expanding and is characteristically charismatic, visionary and apocalyptic.	1
90	Faith Cure: Divine Healing in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements Nancy A. Hardesty / Hendrickson Publishers, 2003, book	History of divine-healing teaching and practice in the Holiness and Pentecostal movements.	1
91	Healing in the History of Christianity Amanda Porterfield / Oxford University Press, 2005, book	Oxford history of Christian healing claims from Jesus and the early church through medieval, Reformation and global missionary eras.	1
92	Spirit and Power – A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals Pew Research Center, 2006, peer-reviewed	Ten-country survey reporting that majorities of Pentecostals claim to have experienced or witnessed divine healing.	1
93	Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement Donald E. Miller & Tetsunao Yamamori, 2007, scholarship	Sociological study of growing Pentecostal congregations worldwide, documenting healing practice as a normal part of church life.	1
94	African Pentecostalism: An Introduction Ogbu Kalu / Oxford University Press, 2008, book	Nigerian historian's introduction to African Pentecostalism, tracing charismatic movements, public presence and theology from the 1900s.	1
95	Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (2 vols.) Craig S. Keener, 2011, scholarship	Cross-cultural, historical defense of miracle reports; argues anti-supernaturalism rather than evidence drives their dismissal.	1
96	The Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population Pew Research Center, 2011, report	Demographic report on global Christianity, including the size and spread of Pentecostal and charismatic renewal.	1
97	The East African Revival: History and Legacies Kevin Ward and Emma Wild-Wood (eds.) / Routledge, 2012, book	Scholarly essays on the 1930s East African Revival, its testimony culture, mission roots and cultural impact.	1
98	To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity Allan Heaton Anderson / Oxford University Press, 2013, book	Historical-theological treatment of global Pentecostal growth, including revivalism, healing, worship and gender.	1
99	An Introduction to Pentecostalism Allan Heaton Anderson, 2014 (2nd ed.), scholarship	Global history and theology of Pentecostalism, documenting the movement's Majority World centre of gravity and its academic respectability.	1
100	The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism Cecil M. Robeck Jr and Amos Yong (eds.) / Cambridge University Press, 2014, book	Multidisciplinary companion to global Pentecostalism, with regional chapters on Latin America, Africa and Asia.	1

What this list is not¶

It is not an endorsement of every claim. Some entries are hostile to the claims they examine; some record fraud, failure, or the absence of gifts in a particular place. Those are marked against or context in the source line. They are in the library because a library that contains only friendly testimony is not a library, and because the grade measures how hard a source is to dismiss, not whether it agrees with us.

It is not proof of doctrine. No accumulation of testimony can establish what Scripture teaches. The exegetical case is in the case and the proof texts; this library is corroboration and illustration.

It is not exhaustive. It is a hundred entries chosen for range: two millennia, five continents, every major source type. A hundred more could be added from the same archives without changing the shape.

It is not static. Links rot, publishers reorganise, and archives move. The links were checked on 14 November 2026. A handful of publisher pages block automated checks and may show a cookie or bot wall in a browser; they are included because the page is real and the bibliographic data is correct.

How to use it¶

If you are sceptical: start at #1 and stop wherever you like. The question is not whether every entry survives your scrutiny, but whether any survive it.
If you are a continuationist: use the library to discipline your claims. The tier tells you how much weight an entry can bear. Tier 4 and 5 entries are illustrations, not evidence.
If you are a pastor: the Tier 1 and 2 entries are the ones to put in front of a sceptical friend, and the Tier 3 entries are the ones to read for the shape of the church's memory.