"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...

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1. Verfasser:	Usher, John Martin (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies, volume 38
Schlagworte:	Polhill, Cecil, > 1860-1938. Church of England > Biography. Church of England Missionaries > England > Biography. Pentecostalism > History. Missionnaires > Angleterre > Biographies. Mouvement charismatique > Histoire. Missionaries Pentecostalism England Biographies History
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Zusammenfassung:	"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"--
Beschreibung:	Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Birmingham, 2015, under the title "For China and Tibet, and for world-wide revival" : Cecil Henry Polhill (1860-1938) and his significance for early pentecostalism.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9004435042 9789004435049
ISSN:	1876-2247 ;