V. Alex Bills Collection
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Title: V. Alex Bills Collection
Dates: 1906-1999
Collection Number: CFT00076
Creator/Collector:
Bills, Verlen Alex (1921-2002)
Extent: 88 Boxes, 44 linear feet
Repository:
Fuller Theological Seminary-David Allan Hubbard Library Archives
Pasadena, California 91182
Abstract: The collection consists of 88 boxes of material. Contents date throughout the 20th century, but mostly span the 1970s-1980s.
The principal focus of the collection is the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement in the United States. The archival collection
includes periodicals, articles, topical research files, conference and ministry documents, audio and video recordings, bibliographies,
address books and directories documenting the Pentecostal, Latter Rain, charismatic, and Third Wave movements in American
church history.
Language of Material: English
Supervised use only. Scholarly use within parameters of copyright law.
V. Alex Bills Collection. Fuller Theological Seminary-David Allan Hubbard Library Archives
Purchased from the Bills family. Acquired by the library on March 25, 2006.
Biography/Administrative History
Verlen Alex Bills (1921-2002) was a historian and archivist of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements in the United States.
He was connected to Logos Magazine, the Parham family, Continental Charismatic Convention, and His People Together. The 4,000
volume book collection has been added to the David Allan Hubbard Library’s Special Collections. The entire collection was
originally known as the Charles Parham Collection.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of 88 boxes of material. Contents date throughout the 20th century, but mostly span the 1970s-1980s.
The principal focus of the collection is the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement in the United States. The archival collection
includes periodicals, articles, topical research files, conference and ministry documents, audio and video recordings, bibliographies,
address books and directories documenting the Pentecostal, Latter Rain, charismatic, and Third Wave movements in American
church history.
Charismatic movement
Jesus People movement
Social movements
Christianity
Pentecostalism
Bills, Verlen Alex (1921-2002)