Cecil Polhill. : missionary, gentleman and revivalist / / Volume1 (1860-1914) : / John Martin Usher.

• Superior document: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; Volume 38
• VerfasserIn: Usher, John Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; Volume 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

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.