Melvyn Jones explores the history of holiness teaching within The Salvation Army, beginning with William Booth's vigorous promotion of holiness from the early days of the movement.
In his foreword, Dr John Coutts writes: ‘The author considers in detail the links between first-generation Salvationists and the “Higher Life” movement which flourished in Great Britain in the 19th century, as well the Army’s relationship with Pentecostalism in the twentieth. Many questions, some contentious, were asked and variously answered. Does a Christian’s commitment to holy living offer, or even require, a second blessing after conversion? Or is the path of perfection both a crisis and a process? What is the relationship between the experience of entire sanctification and “signs following” such as the ability to speak in tongues? Believers are promised “power...when the Holy Spirit has come on you” but how is that divine power to be understood in personal living?’
Published 2015.
