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Hawtin, George
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George Robert Hawtin (1909–1994) was a Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada minister who along with Percy Hunt and Herrick Holt was instrumental in launching the Latter Rain Revival in North Battleford Saskatchewan, Canada in 1948. Hawtin was born in Souris, Manitoba on February 27 to Eliza Harriet Roberts (1868–1957) and James William Hawtin (1875–1942). George was the fifth of six siblings: Hilda Mae (1899–1985), James William (1900–1983), Lillian Edith (1901–2001), Philip Henry (1904–1984), and E…
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2021-07-16
Durham, William H.
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William H. Durham (1873–1912) was born in Kentucky about fifty miles from Lexington. At the age of eighteen, Durham joined the Baptist church, but he did not experience conversion until 1898 while living in Minnesota. In 1901 he was sanctified though he would later re-interpret the experience as the reclaiming of the fullness of salvation (Jacobsen 2003). After a year as an evangelist, Durham assumed the pastorate of Gospel Mission Church, an independent holiness mission on North Avenue, Chicago…
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2021-07-16
Keswick Movement
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The first Keswick Convention convened on June 29, 1875 in a scenic town nestled beneath Skiddaw mountain in northwest England. The convention became an annual event of week-long meetings consisting of Bible studies, addresses, prayer meetings, women’s meetings, and a concern for practical holiness. The first conference was initiated by Canon Thomas Dundas Harford-Battersby (1823–1883), Robert Wilson (1824–1905), and Robert Pearsall Smith (1873–1898). Smith withdrew and Harford-Battersby took ove…
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2021-07-16
Eschatology
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Eschatology is the theology of the last things. It deals with death, judgement, heaven and hell, the end of history, the end of the cosmos, and the coming kingdom of God. Eschatology can be oriented to the future or to the present. It can be other-worldly or this-worldly. In the United States, Pentecostal eschatology has passed through a variety of permutations rooted in historical and cultural factors though at the core is the belief in the second coming of Christ.One view that was initially influential was the eschatology of the latter rain. Using the analogy of Palestine climate p…
Date:
2021-07-16
