Troubadour of the Kingdom: The Life and Times of J. Rufus Moseley, 1870–1954
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Overview
Joel Rufus Moseley (1870-1954) is one of the forgotten twentieth-century champions of American Pentecostalism. A brilliant scholar and university professor, he left the accolades of academia and searched a number of spiritual paths until he embraced Pentecostalism in 1910. Thereafter he began a lay ministry to the down-and-outs of society, openly campaigning against capital punishment, for racial desegregation, and above all else for living a life in the Holy Spirit he described as “Life as Love.” He blazed a path that was to influence (and confound) many Pentecostal leaders of his time, provided an example to those who would lead what become known as the Charismatic Renewal, and enjoyed a life of joy one rarely encounters. A contemporary version of St. Francis of Assisi, Rufus Moseley shunned position, power, politics, religious titles, and seeking after wealth in favor of following simplicity and depth of spiritual life. Like his thirteenth-century counterpart, he lived a life of gratitude, of “littleness,” and above all, love. Moseley offers encouragement as well as reproof to the contemporary charismatic movement to again seek the simplicity that is in Christ.
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“In Gregory Camp’s Troubadour of the Kingdom we are
introduced to a little known but important and fascinating figure
in Pentecostal history. Rufus Mosely was a journalist, educator,
and theologian who went from Christian science to Pentecostalism
about 1910. . . . He was truly a marketplace mystic and well
deserving of this excellent biography.”
Vinson Synan, Pentecostal historian and author
- Title: Troubadour of the Kingdom: The Life and Times of J. Rufus Moseley, 1870–1954
- Authors: William L. De Arteaga, Gregory S. Camp
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781532679803, 9781532679780, 9781532679797, 1532679807, 1532679785, 1532679793
- Resource ID: LLS:9781532679803
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biography
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-10-16T06:12:16Z
Gregory S. Camp is a historian living in Macon, Georgia. A
retired history professor, in recent years his interests have been
drawn to American Pentecostal history. Camp believes Moseley’s life
and ministry to be one of American Christianity’s forgotten
treasures. It is the author’s belief that the reader will find in
Rufus Moseley something too often missing in today’s Pentecostal
and charismatic world: a life of simplicity borne of the power of
God’s love.