Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist

Volume 1 (1860-1914)
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42681-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies

The full significance of Cecil Henry Polhill (1860-1938), the wealthy squire of Howbury Hall, is known to few, yet he was one of the founding fathers of the Pentecostal-Charismatic tradition in Britain, and his impact and legacy stretch far beyond British shores to North America, the Far East and elsewhere. In Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist John Usher comprehensively connects Polhill's early life and former experiences as an Evangelical Anglican missionary in China, a member of the Cambridge Seven, with his time as a pioneer of early Pentecostalism, and in doing so reveals a much more richly contoured and multifaceted picture of the development of early Pentecostalism than previously achieved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Usher, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Foreword

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 From Eton to China (1860–1885)

2 Imperial China: Frequent Danger and the Power of the Holy Spirit (1885–1888)

3 Mysterious Tibet: The Land “in Gross Darkness with Hardly a Gleam of Light” (1888–1900)

4 Life in England, “for China and Tibet, and for Worldwide Revival,” Prayer and Activism between Leaving China and Discovering Pentecostalism (1900–1907)

5 Embracing and Leading Early British Pentecostalism (1908–1910)

6 A Vision Realised, “The Tribes Abound and Are Clamouring for the Gospel,” Polhill and the Pmu at the Tibetan Border (1910–1914)

Appendix 1 The Testimony of Wang Tsuan Yi (Uang-Ts’Ong-I)

Appendix 2 Full Text of the “Memorandum of Agreement between the China Inland Mission and the Tibetan Band” 1896

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Martin Usher, Ph.D. (2015), Regents Theological College, is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Pentecostal Theology at the College, and Visiting Lecturer of Church history at the University of Birmingham (2018-present) and previously at the University of Roehampton (2012-2019).