Barry Chant

Barry Mostyn Chant (born 1938) is an Australian academic, pentecostal pastor and author. His most significant contribution to the Pentecostal movement in Australia was as its primary historian. ''Heart of Fire: The story of Australian Pentecostalism'' was published by the House of Tabor in 1973, a publishing company attached to Tabor College Australia, in Adelaide, which Chant founded and led as principal.

Chant's first book was also the first comprehensive history of Australian Pentecostalism based on grey literature and oral histories collected within 60 years of the establishment of the key Pentecostal churches in Australia. His collected sources, are now deposited in the archives of Alphacrucis, a Bible college in Sydney, New South Wales.

Chant was also founding editor of ''Australia's New Day'' magazine, the first national magazine addressing all expressions of charismatic renewal in Australia. Chant's doctoral dissertation was titled "The spirit of Pentecost: origins and development of the Pentecostal movement in Australia, 1870-1939". His degree was conferred by Macquarie University in 2000, and a second volume of Pentecostal history was published from his thesis.

Chant married Vanessa Bennett at the Adelaide Crusade Centre in 1960. They have three children. Provided by Wikipedia