By Rick Ostrander
Through the overdue nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Christians carried on an severe debate in regards to the doctrine of prayer. This ideological revolution affected not just the ways in which they interpreted the Bible but additionally how they prayed. during this ebook, Rick Ostrander explores the makes an attempt of yankee Christians to articulate a resounding and pleasurable ethic of prayer amidst those altering situations.
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Can be scientifically based. ’’ Though Tyndall initiated the latter attack, his prayer-gauge was never tried—Galton’s statistics, not Tyndall’s philosophy, lay at the heart of the issue. However, most responses to the prayer-gauge in the respectable journals focused on the philosophical rather than the empirical objection to prayer. 40 The American Tract Society’s Herbert Morris, for instance, devoted a lengthy section of his response to the prayer-gauge challenge to showing the vast amount of prayers that could be answered simply by God influencing human minds (level two prayer), not by altering the forces of nature.
In addition, like Mueller, Taylor also claimed to have received answers to level three prayers concerning natural phenomena. He claimed the miraculous recovery of his wife from illness in answer to prayer. Once the ship Taylor was sailing on was being driven by a relentless storm into a treacherous rockfilled bay so that its doom appeared certain. 20 Taylor visited America in 1888 at the invitation of Moody and spoke at Moody’s Northfield Conference and the opening of the Niagara Conference. 21 These men also influenced American evangelicals through the printed word.
Buoyed by these developments, as well as a growing interest in physical health as a whole throughout the culture, interest in divine healing spread through American Protestant circles, especially among holiness proponents, for whom divine healing fit well with an increased emphasis on the power and present working of God. Though Methodist holiness advocates were most heavily influenced, divine healing attracted the attention of Reformed Protestants in Keswick holiness circles such as the Baptist A.
