Readings in Alliance History and Thought
Table of Contents
Preface
Kenneth L. Draper, Living Tradition
Part 1 Alliance History
1. Simpson: His Life
1.1 Emma Beere, Simpson Anecdotes
1.2 A.B. Simpson, My Own Story
1.3 A.B. Simpson Chronology
2. Simpson: Spiritual Crises
2.1 A.B. Simpson, A Solemn
Covenant
2.2 A.B. Simpson, Personal Testimony - Sanctification
2.3 A.B. Simpson, A Larger Christian Life
2.4 A.B. Simpson, The Gospel of Healing
2.5 A.B. Simpson, Baptism and the Baptism of
the Holy Spirit
3. Simpson's Hymns and Alliance Hymnody
3.1 Gene Rivard, Rediscovering the Music of A.B. Simpson
4. The Founding of the Alliance
4.1 A.B. Simpson, Story of Providence
4.2 Constitution of Christian Alliance, 1887
4.3 Constitution of Evangelical Missionary Alliance,
1887
5. The Work of the Early Alliance
5.1 Excerpts from The Story of the Christian and
Missionary Alliance
5.2 John Dahms, The Social Interest and Concern of
A.B. Simpson
5.3 Leslie Andrews, A.B. Simpson's Understanding
of the Role of Women in Ministry
6. The Alliance After Simpson
6.1 General Constitution and Principles, 1912
6.2 Paul Rader, Annual Report of the President,
1920
6.3 W.M. Turnbull and C.H. Chrisman, The Message
of The Christian and Missionary Alliance,
1927
7. Alliance Missions
7.1 A.B. Simpson, Aggressive Christianity
7.2 T.V. Thomas with Ken Draper, A.B. Simpson and
World Evangelism
7.3 L.L. King, Indigenous Church Policy of the C&MA
7.4 David Moore, How the C&MA Relates to Overseas
Churches
Part 2 Alliance Thought
8. The Fourfold Gospel
8.1 David Schroeder, The Centrality of Jesus Christ
in the Fourfold Gospel
9. The Early Alliance View of Sanctification
9.1 A.B. Simpson, The Baptism of the Holy Spirit:
A Crisis or an Evolution?
9.2 George Pardington, The Crisis of the Deeper
Life
9.3 A.B. Simpson, The Sanctifying Work of
Christ
9.4 A.B. Simpson, How to Abide
10. Developments in the Alliance View of Sanctification
10.1 Charles Nienkirchen, 'Deep Calleth Unto Deep,'
Stillness in Early Alliance Spirituality
10.2 Robert Willoughby, Pentecost: An Experience
for Today
10.3 Gordon T. Smith, Conversion and Sanctification
in the Christian and Missionary
Alliance
11. Healing
11.1 A.B. Simpson, Divine Healing in the
Atonement
11.2 A.B. Simpson, How to Receive Divine
Healing
11.3 A.B. Simpson, Divine Healing and Medical
Science
11.4 Excerpts from A Cloud of Witnesses
Concerning Divine Healing
12. Developments in the Alliance View of Healing
12.1 Ken Badley, Healing: The Technical
Thesis
12.2 Keith Bailey, New Significance for the
Doctrine of Healing in the Atonement
12.3 Andy Reimer, Healing: Biblical Basis and
Prodedure
13. The Coming King
13.1 A.B. Simpson, Practical Influence of the Blessed
Hope
13.2 A.B. Simpson, The Lord's Coming and Mission
14. Developments in Alliance Eschatology
14.1 Franklin Pyles, The Missionary Eschatology
of A.B. Simpson
14.2 Michael Tymchak, Ethics and the Coming
King
14.3 A.B. Simpson, Publisher's Foreword to
Revelation, The Christ in the Bible
Commentary Series
15. Toward a Doctrinal Statement
15.1 Scott Russell Borderud, Creeds and the Statement
of Faith
15.2 Conference for Prayer and Counsel,
1906
15.3 Doctrinal Statement for Alliance Bible
Schools, 1928
15.4 Statement of Faith, 1965
16. Continuity and Change, Charting the Future
16.1 L.L. King, We are Specialists
