Catherine Booth: A Biography of the Cofounder of the Salvation Army - Softcover

Green, Roger Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080105706X ISBN 13: 9780801057069

Publisher: Baker Pub Group, 1996

Synopsis

Catherine Booth: A Biography of the Cofounder of The Salvation Army is the story of a woman of the nineteenth century who helped change her world.
As wife and partner of William Booth, Catherine became a driving force behind the founding and leading of The Salvation Army. Foremost in her heart was the desire to bring souls to a saving knowledge of Christ. Despite criticism from her peers, she believed intensely that she should preach to the people the straightforward message of salvation.
Catherine Booth's views were ahead of her time. She had firm convictions on a broad range of issues such as social advocacy among the poor, abstinence from alcohol, vegetarianism, the humane treatment of animals, and the legal age of consent for girls. On Christian doctrine, she believed in entire sanctification as taught in the Wesleyan doctrine of holiness. Perhaps most radical was her belief that women had full equality with men in ministry.
Roger Green paints a fair and accurate portrait of Catherine as a woman who worked tirelessly to serve others and lived her life with unreserved devotion to God.

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About the Author

Roger J. Green is chairperson of biblical and theological studies at Gordon College.

Reviews

Turn on almost any channel late at night and you're likely to find some modern-day, Elmer Gantry leading a crowd of myrmidons. With such goings-on, it's hard to find serious, scholarly treatment of such figures as Catherine Booth, cofounder with husband William of the Salvation Army. Green (biblical and theological studies, Gordon Coll.) has filled the niche nicely with this treatment, which goes beyond earlier adulatory works such as W.T. Stead's Mrs. Booth of the Salvation Army (1900), Catherine Bramwell-Booth's Catherine Booth: The Story of Her Loves (Hodder-Stoughton, 1970), and Frederick de Latour Booth-Tucker's hagiography, Life of Catherine Booth: Mother of the Salvation Army (1892). Green, a Salvation Army layperson himself, gives ample space to Booth's own words from letters and published writings. The effect is measured but articulate. Green is remiss only in insinuating that Booth was an early feminist owing to her views on women preachers, which is to mistake form for essence. With an excellent bibliography and bibliographic essay; highly recommended.?Mark Y. Herring, Oklahoma Baptist Univ., Shawnee
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Pub Group
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080105706X
• ISBN 13: 9780801057069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336