Talk:Healing revival

Editing

This article has undergone major revision. Work needs to be done to bring it back to balance, or revert. Theriddles 03:47, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to revert the article, and try to incorporate some of what has been added. Theriddles 03:53, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Really this article needs a lot of help. I got involved initially because there was confusion about Healing Revival in the general sense versus "The Healing Revival" A lot of the material after the introduction may not even belong here Theriddles 04:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

William Branham

I have edited the article to emphasize the role of William Branham based on the following sources:

Dictionary of Christianity In America : 1990 Intervarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA, Downers Grove, Illinois, p182
Branham, William Marrion (1909-1965) Healing evangelist: The post-World War 2 healing revival in Pentecostalism began in the ministry of William Branham, an independent so- called "Holy Ghost" Baptist minister from Jeffersonville, Indiana. In 1946 Branham claimed that an angel commissioned him to be a prophet with the message of divine healing. From 1946 to 1955 Branham conducted a healing ministry that only Oral Roberts could match.

Harrell, D. E., All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America, Indiana University Press, 1978 p25
“Most of the participants of the [post-WW11] revival looked upon Branham as its initiator. Out of his massive union meetings in 1947 spread reports of hundreds of miracles and marvels” (p.25)

Weaver, C. D., The Healer-Prophet: William Marrion Branham (A Study of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism), Mercer University Press, 2000, p139
"As the pacesetter and pre-eminent visionary of the healing revivalism that flourished in Pentecostalism from the late 1940’s through the late 1950’s, William Branham was deeply respected for his legendary power". (p.139)

Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988), p. 372.
"The person universally acknowledged as the revival’s `father’ and `pacesetter’ was William Branham. The sudden appearance of his miraculous healing campaigns in 1946 set off a spiritual explosion in the Pentecostal movement which was to move to Main Street, U.S.A., by the 1950s and give birth to the broader charismatic movement in the 1960s, which currently affects almost every denomination in the country. ... `Branham filled the largest stadiums and meeting halls in the world.’ ... As the pacesetter of the healing revival, Branham was the primary source of inspiration in the development of other healing ministries. He inspired hundreds of ministers to enter the healing ministry and a multitude of evangelists paid tribute to him for the impact he had upon their work. As early as 1950, over 1,000 healing evangelists gathered at a Voice of Healing convention to acknowledge the profound influence of Branham on the healing movement".
Rev107 10:14, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Recognition

Do you think this sentence is still accurate?
"Although it was concurrent with the more well known evangelical revival led by Billy Graham, and in some ways more broad, it is not recognized in either standard Christian or secular histories."
It is the part in bold that concerns me. With academic authors of the cliber of David Harrell, C. D. Weaver, Walter Hollenweger, Krapohl & Lippy, and the Dictionary of Christianity in America, acknowledging "the healing revival", I think it is now universally recognized although the actual term "the healing revival" may not appeal to all.
Rev107 07:16, 1 October 2007 (UTC)