Research Catalog

Title

Catherine Booth : laying the theological foundations of a radical movement / John Read.

Author

Read, John.

Publication

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2013.

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Details

Description

viii, 234 pages : portrait; 23 cm

Summary

"Catherine Booth's achievements--as a revivalist, social reformer, champion of women's rights, and, with her husband William Booth, co-founder of The Salvation Army--were widely recognized in her lifetime. However, Catherine Booth's life and work has since been largely neglected. This neglect has extended to her theological ideas, even though they were critical to the formation of Salvationism, the spirituality of the movement she cofounded. This book examines the implicit theology that undergirds Catherine Booth's Salvationist spirituality and reveals the ethical concerns at the heart of her soteriology and the integral relationship between the social and evangelical aspects of Christian mission in her thought. Catherine Booth emerges as a significant figure from the Victorian era, a British theologian and church leader with a rare if not unique intellectual and theological perspective: that of a woman."--Publisher.

Subject

• Booth, Catherine Mumford, 1829-1890
• Salvation Army > Doctrines > History
• Salvation Army
• Salvationists > Great Britain > Biography
• Salvationists
• Theology, Doctrinal
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Salvation -- The pursuit of holiness -- Doctrine of holiness -- The church -- Ministry -- The sacraments -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 162032492X
• 9781620324929

LCCN

^^2012533578

OCLC

• 830526099
• SCSB-11227334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library