The Latter Rain Movement was a late nineteenth-century radical Holiness theology and Revivalist phenomenon which began in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
[1] The Latter Rain Movement began in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee among groups of disaffected Baptists and Methodists.
Similar revivals began taking place at this time, including those at Topeka, Kansas, under Charles Fox Parham, and Azusa Street in Los Angeles under William J.
Even though Tomlinson had been successful in gathering together many congregations which identified with the Latter Rain Movement, this unity was temporary and schisms began to occur almost immediately.
Certain shared doctrines have been noted, which include a conviction that the group exhibits a restoration of the primitive pattern followed by the New Testament Church.
[11] In accordance to the verses in Joel 2:23-29[12] in which the term "Latter Rain" occurs, there was a prominent acceptance and encouragement of Spirit baptism, speaking in tongues, prophecy, miracles and other spiritual gifts.