William Charles Kostlevy is a historian who has held positions at several universities and seminaries. He received his PhD in History from the University of Notre Dame. His areas of research and publication include the Holiness Movement, Brethren history, and 19th century evangelicalism. He currently serves as the Director of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives in Illinois.

1. William Charles Kostlevy
Box 933 Telephone: Home (847) 628-6295
Elgin, IL 60120 Telephone: Work (847) 429-4368
Email: bkostlevy@brethren.org
EDUCATION:
A.B. (History) Asbury College Wilmore, KY
M.A. (History) Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
M.A.Th. Bethany Theological Seminary Oak Brook, IL
M.A. (History) University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
Ph.D. (History) University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
HONORS:
Phi Alpha Theta
William Randolph Hearst Fellowship, University of Notre Dame
Fellow, Young Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Groups,
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Director Brethren Historical Library and Archives 2013-
Tabor College Hillsboro, KS 2005-2013
Professor of History and Political Science
Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena, CA 2004-2005
Archivist
Asbury Theological SeminaryWilmore, KY 1991-present
Archivist, Special Collections Librarian and affiliate professor of Church history,
and Associate Director of the Wesleyan/Holiness Studies Center
Transylvania University Lexington, KY 1990-1993
Lecturer in History
Asbury Theological SeminaryWilmore, KY 1988-1991
Bibliographer, Wesleyan/Holiness Studies Project
Florence Church of the Brethren Constantine, MI 1982-1988
Pastor
Mennonite Board of Missions Elkhart, IN 1981-1983
Volunteer as liaison with the Peace and Social Concerns Commission, Indiana
Michigan Conference, and Intake Case Coordinator, Elkhart County PACT
(1981-1982)
PUBLICATIONS:
"John Greenleaf Whittier and the Articulation of an American Faith," Master's
Project, Bethany Theological Seminary, 1982
"Luther Lee and Methodist Abolitionism," Methodist History, January, 1982
7 articles, Brethren Encyclopedia (Philadelphia: Brethren Encyclopedia, 1983)

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PUBLICATIONS (continued):
"Benjamin Titus Roberts and the `Preferential Option for the Poor' in the Early
Free Methodist Church" in Poverty and Ecclesiology: Nineteenth-Century
Evangelicals in the Light of Liberation Theology, Anthony L. Dunnavant, ed.
(Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992)
Holiness Manuscripts: A Guide to Unpublished Sources Documenting the
Wesleyan/Holiness Movement in the United States and Canada (Metuchen, NJ:
Scarecrow Press, 1994)
"Pentecostal and Holiness Movements," Encyclopedia of New York City (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
9 articles, Blackwell's Dictionary of Evangelical Biography (London: Blackwell’s,
1995)
“Nor Silver, Nor Gold: The Burning Bush Movement and the Communitarian
Holiness Vision.” Ph.D., diss. University of Notre Dame, 1996
"A Persistent Sectarian Community: James Quinter and the Nineteenth-Century
Reformulation of Brethren Identity." In The Holy Spirit and the Gathered
Community: The Challenge of Pietistic Experience for Anabaptist Groups, ed. by
Steven L. Longenecker (Bridgewater, VA: Forum for Religious Studies, 1997)
“A Perfectionist Remnant: The Christian Pacifist Dissent from Realism on the Eve
of the Cold War.” Brethren Life and Thought, 42 (Summer-Fall 1997): 199-215
“Culture, Class and Gender in the Progressive Era: The Social Thought of the
Free Methodist Church during the Age of Gladden, Strong and Rauschenbush.”
In Perspectives on the Social Gospel, Christopher H. Evans, ed. (Lewiston, NY:
Edwin Mellen, 1999)
“Forsaking All for Jesus: the Burning Bush Movement, a Wisconsin Religious
Utopian Community,” Wisconsin Magazine of History (83 Summer 2000); 227-
257
“Martin Wells Knapp, Charles Cowman and the Origins of the Oriental Missionary
Society,” Holiness Church and Theology 4 (2000): 101-123. (In Korean)
Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement, William C. Kostlevy, compiler
and editor, (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001)
“Eschatology, Mission, and American Destiny: Brethren and the Moral Equivalent
of Imperialism.” Brethren Life and Thought 46 (Winter and Spring 2001): 104-111
1 article, Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism (New York: Routledge, 2001).

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PUBLICATIONS (continued):
Heart of the Heritage: Core Themes of the Wesleyan/Holiness Tradition
Highlighted by the Wesleyan Theological Society, 1965-2000, edited with Barry
L. Callen. Salem, OH: Schmul Publishing Co., 2001.
2 articles, Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 2nd
ed. (Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002)
“The Price of Discipleship: E. L. Harvey and the Communitarian Holiness Vision.”
In James R. Goff, Jr. and Grant Wacker, eds. Portraits of a Generation: Early
Pentecostal Leaders (Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2002.
“Gilbert W. Blinn and the Origins of the Metropolitan Church Association in South
Africa.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 38 (Spring 2003): 54-65.
“The Holiness Movement, the Manheim Camp Meeting and C. H. Balsbaugh:
Christian Perfection in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.” Brethren Life and Thought
48 (Winter and Spring 2003): 91-109.
“Saving Souls and Bodies,” Christian History Spring, 2004.
With Gari-Anne Patzwald, “From Mutual Aid to Global Action,” Christian History,
Fall, 2004.
With Gene Roop, Bethany Theological Seminary: A Centennial History. Earlham,
IN: Brethren Life and Thought, 2005.
“Perfection” in The Encyclopedia of Christianity (Grand Rapids: William B.
Eerdmans, 2005)
“Abolitionism” in Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006)
“E. Stanley Jones: The Holiness Evangelist as Social Critic.” Wesleyan
Theological Journal 42 (Fall, 2007).
Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement, William C. Kostlevy, compiler
and editor. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era American.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Perfecting Mennonites: The Holiness Movement’s Impact on American
Mennonites with Special Reference to Kansas.” Brethren and Christ History and
Life 34 (August 2011): 213-236.
“Common Sense but No Common Cup: Evangelicals and the Logic of Intoxicant
Free Worship.” Evangelicals Studies Bulletin (Winter 2011). 1-3.

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PUBLICATIONS (continued):
“Conquerors after All: Keswick—A Misunderstood Tradition,” Reflections: A
Publication of the Missionary Church Historical Society 13-14 (2011-2012). 65-
72.
“The Life and Times of John Bascom: A Case Study in the Social Gospel,”
Christian History, Issue 104, 2013.
“To Shake the State and the Churches: Dunker Continuity in the Age of
Otterbein and Boehm.” Brethren Life and Thought 58 (Spring 2013), 33-37.
Preface to Wallace Thornton, Jr., When the Fire Fell: Martin Wells Knapp’s
Vision of Pentecost and the Beginnings of God’s Bible School. Lexington, KY:
Emeth, Press, 2014.
. Book Reviews in Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,
Brethren and Christ History and Life, Church History, Methodist History,
Direction, Wesleyan Theological Journal, Mennonite Quarterly Review
PRESENTATIONS:
"The Faith of a Patriot and the Faith of a Prophet: The Divided Loyalties of
Quaker Poet John Greenleaf Whittier." Meeting of Quaker Historians and
Archivist, Wilmington College, 1993
"Lodging a Complaint: The Role of Gender in the Radical Evangelical War
Against Secret Societies." Conference on Mission in the Wesleyan/Holiness
Traditions, Asbury Theological Seminary, 1993
“The Spirituality of John Kline.” John Kline Celebration, Broadway, VA, June 13-
15, 1997
“Culture, Class and Gender in the Progressive Era: The Social Thought of the
Free Methodist Church during the Age of Gladden, Strong and Rauschenbush.”
Conference on the Social Gospel, Colgate-Rochester-Bexley Hall-Crozier
Theological Seminary, March 22, 1998
“From Outward Rites to Interior Purity: The Holiness Movement and the
Transformation of Dunker Spirituality in the Nineteenth Century.” American
Society of Church History, Washington, DC, January 10, 1999
“Moving Beyond Phoebe Palmer: Research Opportunities in Holiness Movement
Studies.” Canadian Methodist Historical Society, Toronto, ON, June 25, 1999.
“Martin Wells Knapp in Historical Perspective.” God’s Bible School
Centennial Celebration, Cincinnati, OH, September, 2000.
“Gilbert W. Blinn and the Origins of the Metropolitan Church Association in South
Africa.” Wesleyan Theological Society, Hobe Sound, FL, March 2, 2002.

5. “Martin Wells Knapp and the Roots of the 1907 Revival,” Conference on the 1907
Korean Revival Fuller Theological Seminary, February 16, 2007.
William C. Kostlevy
Presentations (continued)
“The Revolt of the Sanctified: Holiness Radicalism in Progressive Era America,”
Midwest Conference of History, September, 2008.
“Perfecting Mennonites: The Holiness Movements Impact upon Kansas
Mennonites,” March 31, 2011. Kyle Lecture Tabor College
“To Shake the State and the Churches: Dunker Continuity in the Age of Otterbein
and Boehm.” Conference on the Life and Influence of Alexander Mack, Jr.: Pietist
and Anabaptist Intersections in Pennsylvania,” Young Center, Elizabethtown
College, June 2012.
“Brethren Spirituality in the Twentieth Century,” Brethren World Assembly, July
11-14, 2013. Brookville, Ohio.
William C. Kostlevy
SERVICE
Church of the Brethren Historical Committee, 1997-2007
Wesleyan Theological Society, secretary-treasurer, 1991-2005
Accreditation Committee, Asbury Theological Seminary, 1993-1994
God’s Bible School Centennial Committee, 1998-2000
Book Review editor, Brethren Life and Thought, 2000-2005
Editorial Board, Brethren and Christ History and Life, 2001-2007
Advisory Board, Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization
Movements, Asbury Theological Seminary (2006-
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Western History Association
American Society of Church History
Conference of Faith and History
REFRENCES
Tom Longenecker
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Michael S. Hamilton
Seattle Pacific University

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Email: mhamilton@spu.edu
Grace Yoder
Asbury Theological Seminary Telephone (859) 858-3581
204 N. Lexington Ave.
Wilmore, KY 40390
Email: grace.yoder@asburyseminary.edu