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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches
Emmett contributes to missional pentecostal historiography through
bringing a pre-eminent figure in early British Pentecostalism into
the limelight. He shows how Pentecostalism in Belgian Congo was
pioneered by W.F.P. Burton alongside local agency. Central to
Burton's contradictory and complex personality was a passionate
desire to see the emancipation of humankind from the spiritual
powers of darkness believing only Spirit-empowered local agency
would enduringly prove effective. Burton's faith believed for
Spirit intervention in church communities converting lives,
bringing physical healing and transforming regions. In the
maelstrom following Congolese Independence, Burton's belief in his
own brand of indigenisation made him an outlier even among
Pentecostals. Burton's pentecostal faith engendered an idealism
which frustratingly conflicted with those not sharing it in the way
he pursued it. This book thus serves Pentecostals and historians by
clarifying Burton's ideals and revealing the reasons for his
frustrations.
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.
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