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Author Henry, James Daryn, author.

Title A.B. Simpson and the making of modern evangelicalism / Daryn Henry
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019

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Series McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 87
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 87.
Contents As for Me and My House -- Memories of Conversion -- A Good and Faithful Servant -- Shepherding the Flock -- Parting of the Company -- New Wine, Fresh Wineskins -- Mysteries of the Gospel -- To the Ends of the Earth -- When the Day of Pentecost Came -- Defending and Innovating the Faith -- A Race Run
Summary "A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century. Daryn Henry presents Simpson's life and ministry as a vivid, fascinating, and paradigmatic study in evangelical religious culture, during a time when the conservative wing of the movement has often been overlooked. Simpson's ministry, Henry explains, fused the classic evangelical emphasis on revivalist conversion with the intensification of that sensibility in the quest for the deeper Christian life of holiness. Recovering the practice of divine healing, Simpson emphasized a dynamically empowered and supernaturally animated Christianity that would spill over into nascent Pentecostalism. His encouragement of cross-cultural missions was part of a trend that unleashed the dramatic rise of world Christianity across the Global South. All the while, his Biblical literalism, antagonism to modernist theology, campaigns against evolution, and views on premillennialism, Biblical prophecy, and the role of Israel in the end times made Simpson a precursor of the fundamentalist melees of subsequent decades. From his upbringing in rural Canada and confessional Scottish Presbyterianism, Simpson journeyed into the heart of American evangelicalism revolving around his base in New York City. Against most previous writing on Simpson, Henry's biography presents both continuities and discontinuities in the development of modern interdenominational evangelicalism out of the denominational evangelicalism of the nineteenth century."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2020)
Subject Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.)
SUBJECT Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.) fast
Subject Christian and Missionary Alliance -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography
SUBJECT Christian and Missionary Alliance fast
Subject Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
Clergy
Evangelicalism
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020438284
ISBN 9780228000136
0228000130
9780228000129
0228000122
9780773559271
0773559272
9780773559264
0773559264