Author: Thomas A. FudgePublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773482494
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Daniel Warner and the Paradox of Religious Democracy in Nineteenth-century America
Author: Thomas A. FudgePublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773482494
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A Life Sketch of D.S. Warner: Pioneer of the Church of God Reformation Movement
Author: John a. MorrisonPublisher: Jordan Publishing (GB)
ISBN: 9781891314117
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Daniel Sidney Warner (1842-1895) was a leading evangelist and writer of the nineteenth-century American Holiness movement. His work gave rise to a denomination known as the Church of God, now headquartered in Anderson, Indiana. This book provides a concise narrative of his life and ministry, based on the most recent historical research.
Who Healeth All Thy Diseases
Author: Michael Stanley StephensPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810858404
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Who Healeth All Thy Diseases is a history of divine healing and 19th-century health reform in the Church of God, one of the earliest and most influential pre-Pentecostal radical holiness movements. The Church of God taught that Wesleyan entire sanctification was creating a visible unity of saints that restored the New Testament church of the apostles. As the movement grew and experimented with the implications of visible sainthood, physical healing--miraculous divine healing and the physical perfectionism of health reform--became integral to the life and theology of the Church of God, shaping everything from proof of membership and evidence of ministerial authority to childrearing practices and acceptable clothing styles. Physical healing manifested and embodied the movement's claim that God was healing the universal church (the Body of Christ) by cleansing individuals from the corruption of inbred sin. By 1902, the prevailing opinion in the Church said that divine healing was an essential aspect of the gospel, use of medicine was sinful, and every minister had to exhibit the gifts of healing. In the early 20th century, the Church's theology and practices of healing became increasingly problematic. Tragic failures of divine healing, epidemics, medical advances, court trials, mandatory inoculations of schoolchildren, and general opprobrium combined to prevent a simplistic equation of the Church of God and the church of the apostles. By 1925, the Church had reversed its radical, anti-medicine doctrines. Church members continued to affirm that Jesus answered prayers for healing, but they no longer claimed to know exactly how he would answer prayers. With that loss of certainty, healing lost its power to serve as evidence of holiness and its central place in the history of the Church of God.
Threads of Our Inheritance
Author: Eila T. WhelchelPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 110592940X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This work has been written for my/our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and on, and to my siblings and their children, with love, so that each may know one strand of the complex whole of his or her life. Each life has myriads of strands that twist together to make the thread of what composes one individual. Here I have attempted to relate what I remember and have gathered from others about those who made it possible for each of us to live. The following story of people and happenings are central to who I am and who all of you are or may become.
Birth of a Reformation
Author: Andrew ByersPublisher: FAITH PUBLISHING HOUSE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The life and labors of D. S. Warner are so closely associated with a religious movement that any attempt at his biography becomes in part necessarily a history of that movement. I have therefore chosen the term, Birth of a Reformation, as a part of the title of this book. Brother Warner (to use an appellation in keeping with the idea of universal Christian brotherhood) was doubtless chosen of God as an instrument for accomplishing a particular work. What that work was, why it may be called a reformation, and why, in particular, it may be considered the last reformation, a few words of explanation by way of introduction are offered the inquiring reader. It will be necessary to take a brief glance over the Christian era and review some of the important events and conditions. We note the characteristics of the church in the days of the apostles, which, by reason of its recent founding and organization by the Holy Spirit, is naturally regarded as exemplary and ideal. It had no creed but the Scriptures and no government but that administered by the Holy Spirit, who 'set the members in the body as it pleased him'—apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, etc. Thus subject to the Spirit, the early church was flexible, capable of expansion and of walking in all the truth and of adjusting itself to all conditions. It was in very essence the church, the whole, and not a section or part. The apostles and early believers did not restrict themselves and become a Jewish Christian sect or any other kind of sect. Peter's way of thinking would have thus limited him, for as a Jew he declined any particular interest in Gentile converts; but the Lord through a vision changed his mind and advanced his understanding to include the universality of the Christian kingdom. The Holy Spirit in the heart was necessary, of course, to the successful government of the church by the Spirit, otherwise he could not have been understood. There were no dividing lines, for it was the will of the Lord particularly that there be "one fold and one shepherd." Jesus had prayed in behalf of the disciples "that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me". These conditions of being subject to the word and Spirit, of leaving an open door through which greater light and truth might enter as was necessary, and of possessing the love and unity of spirit that cemented the believers together and carried them through all their persecution, constituted the ideal and normal status of God's church on earth as he gave it beginning, of which it was ordained that there should be but one, only one, as long as the world should endure. "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling".
A Life Sketch of D.S. Warner
Author: John A. MorrisonPublisher: Jordan Publishing (GB)
ISBN: 9781891314162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A leading evangelist of the American Holiness movement in the late 1800s, Daniel Sidney Warner challenged Christians to leave all denominations to express their unity in Christ. These "come outers" became known as the Church of God Reformation Movement, which now numbers nearly a million followers worldwide. "A Life Sketch" describes how Warner inspired like-minded Christians to leave the institutional church and begin this new movement.
Making Good the Claim
Author: Rufus BurrowPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498237657
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The Church of God Reformation Movement (founded in 1881) has the distinction of having been founded on the two core principles of holiness and visible unity. Standard histories of the group proudly argue that the founder and pioneers exhibited a zeal for interracial unity that began to wane only in the early years of the twentieth century. This book rejects that claim and argues instead that little to no extant hard evidence supports that view. Moreover, Making Good the Claim argues that while blacks eagerly joined the group, they did so not because whites expended much energy evangelizing among them but because they heard something deeper in the message of holiness and visible unity than God's expectation that members achieve spiritual and church unity. Unlike most whites, blacks interpreted the message to call for unity along racial lines as well. This book challenges members of the Church of God to begin forthwith to make good their historic claim about holiness and visible unity, particularly as it applies to interracial unity.
Religious Bodies: 1936: pt. 1. Denominations, A to J : statistics, history, doctrine, organization, and work
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Warner's Dictionary of Authors Ancient and Modern
Author: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Everlasting Gospel
Author: D William FaupelPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004397051
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
How did Pentecostalism become the fastest growing movement within Christendom in the twentieth century? Faupel contends that Pentecostalism was propelled onto the world stage when early adherents felt commissioned by God to announce that Christ would soon return to establish his kingdom on earth. The gift of tongues would equip them supernaturally to proclaim this message to the nations in the language of the people. Although this expectation was soon disproved, the eschatological hope nevertheless remained the motivating force for Pentecostalism’s rapid growth. This book has been prescribed reading on the Pentecostal hope for many years. This edition makes it available once again to a worldwide readership.