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The holiness movement is composed of people who believe and propagate the belief that the carnal nature/ original sin of the human can be cleansed through faith in the Holy Spirit. This assuming that the person has already had his or her sins forgiven through faith in Jesus. The benefits professed include a remarkable ability to maintain purity of heart and spiritual power.
The holiness movement has its roots in the teachings of John Wesley. Following Wesley's teachings, revivalists preached at camp meetings and other venues to spread the movement across America. It influenced and was influenced by Robert Pearsall Smith and his wife Hannah Whitall Smith. The Smiths helped spread the movement to England from which it spread back to the United States again. Other proponents of the Holiness movement were William Boardman and Phoebe Palmer.
Perhaps the best known Holiness denominations are the Salvation Army and the Church of the Nazarene. A comparatively recent work explaining Holiness theology (particularly in the Nazarene framework) is J. Kenneth Grider's 1994 work A Wesleyan-Holiness Theology (ISBN 0834115123).
Pentecostalism is an offshoot of the Holiness movement.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) with its emphasis on Christ as Savior, sanctifier, healer, and coming King has an affinity with the Wesleyan movement, and its two most prominent thinkers, Albert Benjamin Simpson and Aiden Wilson Tozer, are widely read in Holiness circles, but the C&MA never accepted the doctrine of the eradication of sin.
See also: Holiness.
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