Reading Holiness
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0.50 poundsThe Holiness Movement was birthed and nurtured by
literature, beginning with the writings of early Methodists like Wesley and
Fletcher, as reflected in the career of the seminal Holiness work published in
1824 by Timothy Merritt, who distilled excerpts from these two, and
other, writers into The Christian’s Manual: A Treatise on Christian
Perfection. Under its influence, numerous readers experienced entire
sanctification, including Phoebe Palmer, the commonly acknowledged “mother of
the Holiness Movement.” Her own literary career formed the apex of writings
that fueled the nineteenth-century Holiness Revival, shaping denominations,
schools, and mission works far beyond the auspices of traditional Methodist
contexts. Merritt’s work played such a germinal role in this revival that
several scholars consider its inception to mark the birth of the Holiness
Movement. It thus proves fitting on the bicentennial of its initial publication
to provide this special, newly-corrected commemorative edition of The
Christian’s Manual, along with prefatory essays relevant to Reading
Holiness by Wallace Thornton, Jr. (Radical
Righteousness, Lightning From the Past, Sons of Thunder, Counterpoint and
various other titles).
Product Code: 6645; Pages: 178
This Schmul Publishing Co.
edition is not a scanned facsimile of a used book. It has not been “updated” or
edited into modern English, punctuation or grammar, but is accurate to the
author’s own style and usage. The text has been carefully proofread for accuracy
and formatted for easier reading by today’s readers. Every effort has been made
to prevent disordered text.