James Robinson 
Divine Healing: The Formative Years: 1830–1890 
Theological Roots in the Transatlantic World

Divine healing is commonly practiced today throughout Christendom and plays a significant part in the advance of Christianity in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Such wide acceptance of the doctrine within Protestantism did not come without hesitation or controversy. The prevailing view saw suffering as a divine chastening designed for growth in personal holiness, and something to be faced with submission and endurance. It was not until the nineteenth century that this understanding began to be seriously questioned. This book details those individuals and movements that proved radical enough in their theology and practice to play a part in overturning mainstream opinion on suffering.

James Robinson opens up a treasury of largely unknown or forgotten material that extends our understanding of Victorian Christianity and the precursors to the Pentecostal revival that helped shape Christianity in the twentieth century.

Over de auteur

William K. Kay was founding director of the Centre for Pentecostal Studies at Bangor University, UK, and is the author of Pentecostalism: A Very Short Introduction (2011) and George Jeffreys: Pentecostal Apostle and Revivalist (2017), as well as numerous academic papers. He is an ordained minister with British Assemblies of God and honorary fellow at the Institute for Pentecostal Theology.