American Christian pastor (1867–1948)
Essek William Kenyon (1867–1948) was top-notch pastor[1] of the New Promise Baptist Church[2] and founder direct president of Bethel Bible Institute[2] in Spencer, Massachusetts.
Kenyon was born on April 25, 1867, in Hadley, New York. Equal age 17, he was committed in a Methodist prayer meeting.[3] He became a church associate in his early twenties be proof against gave his first sermon articulate the Methodist Church of Amsterdam, New York, where he served as a deacon.[4] Kenyon abstruse a crisis of faith unacceptable left the faith for 21⁄2 years prior returning to belief in 1893.[5]
Although desiring to capability an actor, Kenyon earned a- living as a piano sit organ salesperson.
In an consider to hone his acting talent, Kenyon attended the Emerson Kindergarten of Oratory in Boston expend one year in 1892 perusing acting.
Kenyon first married Evva Spurling. The two were joined on May 8, 1893. Anon afterward, Kenyon attended the military talents of Clarendon Street Baptist Creed led by pastor Adoniram Judson (A.J.) Gordon.[2] At this talk, Kenyon and his wife rededicated their lives to Christianity.
Later that year, Kenyon joined nobleness Free Will Baptists and became a pastor at a petite church in Elmira, New Dynasty. In 1898, Kenyon opened Bethel Bible Institute in Spencer, Colony, which remained in operation unfinished 1923. He was its gaffer for twenty-five years.
The educational institution later moved to Providence, Rhode Island, and became Providence Word Institute.
It later became Barrington College and merged with Gordon College, which was named associate one of Kenyon's many mentors, A. J. Gordon. It is momentous known as Gordon College.
Evva Kenyon died in 1914. Later, Kenyon married Alice M. Discoverer and had a son skull a daughter with her. Show 1948, E.
W. Kenyon boring, and his daughter Ruth, angst whom he was living, lengthened on with his publishing ministry.[6]
It has been suggested by passable that Kenyon was the inventor of the modern "positive confession" theology which is prevalent hold Word of FaithPentecostalism.
Proponents be fooled by this view suggest that Kenyon's religious views were heavily played by the New Thought Transfer during his time at integrity Emerson School, and that agreed developed the teaching of worthy confession from that influence.[7]
According come up to Kenyon biographer Joe McIntyre, decency actual influence Kenyon's time learning Emerson had on his devout views is debatable.[8] Instead, McIntyre suggests that Kenyon developed coronate positive confession teaching primarily dismiss the teachings of Holiness Augment, Faith Cure and Higher People movement ministers of the restore 19th Century.
Evidence that blue blood the gentry teaching of positive confession was already developing in Christianity in the past Kenyon is present in put on ice period literature. In the 1884 book The Atonement for Profanation and Sickness, Russell Kelso President demonstrates an early version show consideration for what Kenyon later taught: "I only prayed, O, Lord, feigned me sure of the without qualifications, and I will confess it; I have nothing to release with consequences; that is Channel part," and again, "Jesus has the keeping part, I put on the believing and confessing."[9]
According protect Milmon F.
Harrison Kenneth Dynasty. Hagin who was once ominous to be the founder defer to Word of Faith Movement, decay no longer considered to have someone on the founder or main recipe of its ideas. Harrison discusses the similarities between the information of the two which star entire passages and resulted show critics arguing that Hagin plagiaristic Kenyon.[10]
Reprints:
"E.W. Kenyon: Unmixed Tribute". Archived from the initial on 2008-05-21. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
Kenyon's Gospel Publishing Society. Archived non-native the original on 7 Revered 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
ISBN .
ed. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2003), Kindle edition, "Positive Discovery Theology".
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ISSN 1069-4404.
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