Holiness Movement

Randall McElwain, “No Room For Mirth Or Trifling Here: Theological and Spiritual Instruction in Charles Wesley’s Hymns for Children”

July 12, 2024 , SEA , Comment Closed

[To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Introduction In The Barber of Seville,…

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Mark K. Olson, “Strange Bedfellows: A Reappraisal of Mildred Wynkoop’s ‘A Theology of Love'”

June 21, 2024 , SEA , Comment Closed

[To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Introduction Mildred…

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Mark K. Olson, “The Revival and Methodist Self-Understanding”

February 4, 2022 , SEA , Comment Closed

Abstract: This second installment [you can see the first one here] examines how early Methodists understood Methodism as an eschatological movement, called to help usher in the millennium through the proclamation of salvation and holiness.…

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Joseph D. McPherson, “Modern Altar Methods: An Inadequate Substitute for the Methodist Class Meeting”

June 9, 2021 , Jon Gossman , Comment Closed

It would be altogether unwise for one to discount the testimonies of any who claim to have received help at an altar of prayer, especially if they give evidence of having been transformed in heart…

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A. J. Smith, “Counterfeit Conversions”

June 8, 2021 , Jon Gossman , Comment Closed

Few will dispute the fact that there is something seriously wrong with the methods employed by popular holiness evangelists and workers at the altar services. Popular evangelists have those who desire to be saved sign…

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Douglas A. Crossman, “Why the Holiness Movement Died”

June 2, 2021 , Jon Gossman , Comment Closed

In the Spring of 1994 Dr. Keith Drury preached a courageous and widely reported sermon to the Christian Holiness Association called “The Holiness Movement is Dead.” Briefly summarized, his reasons for the decline of the…

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Joseph D. McPherson, “How Is One To Seek The Experience Of Christian Perfection?”

May 25, 2021 , Jon Gossman , Comment Closed

Many examples could be cited that would trace the holiness movement’s departure from early Methodism’s heritage and teachings. One important example of such departure is found in the instructions currently given to those who are…

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Vic Reasoner, “Plugging the Holes”

March 10, 2021 , Jon Gossman , Comment Closed

A review of my book The Hole in the Holiness Movement appeared in the January/February, 1993 Convention Herald. I have been asked to respond. I must begin by noting that the author, Edsel Trouten, called…

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