'To meet and satisfy a very hungry people' : the origins and fortunes of English Pentecostalism, 1907-1925 /
Timothy Bernard Walsh ; foreword by Ian M. Randall.
- 1 online resource (298 pages).
- Studies in Evangelical History and Thought .
- Studies in evangelical history and thought. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Rationale -- Objectives -- Origins and Emergence -- Developments: Ideological and Structural -- Methodology -- Early Pentecostal Centres -- England in the Context of the British Isles -- Review of Associated Literature -- Sunderland/Alexander Boddy -- Bradford/Smith Wigglesworth -- Bournemouth/William Oliver Hutchinson -- Croydon/Pastor Inchcombe -- Sources and Perspectives -- Pentecostalism and the Historical Record -- Source Materials and Qualitative Nature of this Study -- Origins and Emergence -- Introduction -- Overview of the Scale and Nature of the Emerging Movement -- Historical Locality -- Sunderland -- Formative Years and Pre-Pentecostal Ministry of the Rev. Alexander A. Boddy -- Healing, Holiness and Revival -- Problematic Emergence of Tongues in England -- "The Very Acme of All Conventions" -- Role of Cecil Polhill and the Formation of the Pentecostal Missionary Union -- All Saints' and Pentecostal Involvement -- Historical Locality -- Bradford -- Formative Years and Pre-Pentecostal Ministry of Smith Wigglesworth -- Holiness and Healing -- the Origins of the Bowland Street Mission -- Pentecostal Initiation and its Implications -- Bradford Convention and an Uneasy Transition -- Historical Locality -- Bournemouth -- Formative Years and Pre-Pentecostal Ministry of William Oliver Hutchinson -- Singular Development for the British Pentecostal Movement -- Hutchinson as a Prominent Figure in the Emerging Network -- Historical Locality -- Croydon -- Croydon's Holiness Mission -- Introduction of the Pentecostal Message -- Stable and Developing Mission -- Conclusion -- Ideological Developments -- Introduction -- Why Spirituality? -- Historico-Thematic Approach -- Churchmanship -- Theological World-View -- Historiography -- "This Fiery Baptism": Pentecostal Initiation -- Tongues and Pentecostal Initiation -- Initiation Narratives -- Release of Spiritual Energy -- Locus of Divine-Human Convergence: The Waiting Meeting -- Tenor of Emerging Pentecostal Worship in England -- Colourful Christianity in Britain -- Emotional Outbursts and Pentecostal Paroxysms in Sunderland -- "Good Under the Rubbish": Uses and Utilisation of Press and Other Reports -- Control Exercised in the Form of the "Visible Leader" -- Transatlantic Perspectives -- Correctives Employed -- Sanity Enjoined -- Pentecostal Apocalypticism -- Overview -- Pre-Millennial Paradigm -- Divine Imminence: Salient Ramifications -- Pentecostal Development: The Latter Rain -- Reaction to War-time Upheavals: Speculation Regarding Antichrist and World Events -- Strange Providences and Uncanny Phenomena -- Polhill and an Altered Eschatological Emphasis -- Pentecostal Revivalism -- Planned and Providential -- Postwar Prospects -- Heritage of Planned Revivalism -- Revivalist as Showman and Shaman -- Wigglesworth -- Revivalistic Planning and Showmanship of the Jeffreys Brothers -- Shamanistic Proclivities of the Jeffreys Brothers -- Pentecostal Re-enchantment of the World -- Pentecostal Otherworldliness -- Introduction -- Emerging Pentecostals, Education, and the Spiritual Life -- Books, Thought, and Modernity as Enemies of the Spiritual Life -- Baser Enemies Yet -- Conclusion -- Historico-Thematic Summary -- Churchmanship -- Theological World-View -- Historiography -- Structural Developments -- Introduction -- Early Conceptions and an Ecumenical Vision -- Organisation Disdained but Leadership Required -- Exertions of Censure and Power -- William Oliver Hutchinson and the Apostolic Faith Connection -- Misses Elkington and Jones -- Suppression of Bracknell Teaching -- Smith Wigglesworth and Pentecostal Officialdom -- Impetus Toward Another Form of Polity -- Decline of the Boddy/Polhill Axis -- A.E. Saxby -- Parallel Trajectory to Structural Developments in North America -- Outcomes for Pentecostal Localities -- Sunderland -- Bradford -- Bournemouth -- Croydon -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Periodicals Consulted -- Newspaper Articles -- Minutes of the Pentecostal Missionary Union Council -- Letters and Personal Correspondence -- Unpublished Pamphlets and Manuscripts -- Published Materials -- Secondary Sources -- Books and Essays -- Scholarly Articles -- Unpublished Dissertations -- Unpublished Papers -- Internet Sites. Section One Section 1.1 Section 1.2 Section 1.3 Section 1.4 Section 1.5 Section Two Section 2.1 Section 2.2 Section 2.3 Section 2.4 Section 2.5 Section Three Section 3.1 Section 3.2 Section 3.3 Section 3.4 Section 3.5