A.B. Simpson and the making of modern evangelicalism / Daryn Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, James Daryn, author.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.).

Simpson, A. B.

Christian and Missionary Alliance--United States--Clergy--Biography.

Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Evangelicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Evangelicalism.

Clergy.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-386) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Henry, James Daryn. A.B. Simpson and the making of modern evangelicalism.

ISBN:

0773559272

9780773559271

9780773559264

0773559264

OCLC:

1089863535