Cecil Polhill. : missionary, gentleman and revivalist / / Volume1 (1860-1914) : / John Martin Usher.
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 el...
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Superior document: | Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; Volume 38 |
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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. |
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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.