Describing the faith and accomplishments of a self-giving and God-centered world-changer, this portrait is most concerned with Mother Booth's intellectual and spiritual journey. That journey was shaped by revivalists, social activists, and feminists. Booth, in turn, influenced the movement she headed through life-long fidelity to the doctrine of entire sanctification and her conviction that a Christian must be fully consecrated to God.
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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.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Catherine Booth Was A Humane Saint !,
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This review is from: Catherine Booth: A Biography of the Cofounder of the Salvation Army (Paperback)
Until I read this wondrous book, I had no idea that Catherine Booth, the conservative Co-Founder of the Slavation Army, embraced women's rights, animal rights and vegetarianism. The author provides many documented instances when Catherine would intervene and stop people from being cruel to dogs, horses, donkeys and oxen. He also mentions the Booth's and their Children loving an array of pets. I always knew that Catherine Booth was a groundbreaking Christian and Humanitarian, but Roger Green surprisingly informed me about Catherine Booth being an animal-loving vegetarian. Too bad today's Christian leaders have failed to emulate her reverence for all God's creatures' creed !
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book about Catherine Booth. I had known she was a vital part of the team, but I didn't realize the extent of her influence on her husband. This is a book I'm keeping in my library. It's well worth the space
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