Purity, power, and Pentecostal light : the revivalist doctrine and means of Aaron Merritt Hills / Christopher Jon Branstetter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branstetter, Christopher Jon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holiness churches--Clergy--Biography.

Holiness churches.

Hills, A. M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Around the turn of the twentieth century, revivalist Protestantism in America splintered into multiple pieces. Few persons of that era knew as many of the central figures of the splinter groups as Aaron Merritt Hills. Originally a Congregationalist who studied under Finney at Oberlin, Hills was a dyed-in-the-wool postmillennial revivalist until his death in 1935. While a Congregationalist, he befriended Reuben A. Torrey and made an enemy of Washington Gladden. In 1895 he joined the Holiness Movement after his experience of Spirit baptism. For the next forty years he founded colleges, held holiness revivals in both America and Britain, and wrote voluminously. While Hills himself is a lesser-known figure in the story of American Christianity, because of the many embroilments of his life, his story offers a unique window into the relationship between the Holiness Movement, Fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, American liberalism, and the Social Gospel Movement.

Contents:

Hill's life and accomplishments

The revivalist doctrine and spirit of post-bellujm Oberlin and Yale

The early development of A.M. Hills' revivalist identity

The tightening of A.m. Hills' revivalist canon

The Hills controversies, or where does Hills fit?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781621896159

1621896153