The Foursquare Gospel of Aimee Semple McPherson

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy Maddux
Keyword(s):  
Aimee Semple Mcpherson

Megachurch: An American Original (Almost)

High on God ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 37-62
Author(s):  
James K. Wellman ◽  
Katie E. Corcoran ◽  
Kate J. Stockly
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Congregational Studies ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Aimee Semple Mcpherson ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Charles Haddon Spurgeon ◽  
George Whitefield

Megachurches are not a new phenomenon; in fact, they have been around for a long time in some form. We trace their history back to the beginning of the Christian faith and describe their trajectory through key historical figures, examining how the Wesley brothers, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, D. L. Moody, Charles Grandison Finney, Russell H. Conwell, and Aimee Semple McPherson produced and nurtured megachurch forms. We describe and argue that Christian churches, and megachurches in particular, are particularly potent in illumining American religious history, and that congregational studies reveal and explain core attributes of American social life.

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

Religion ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-377
Author(s):  
Kristy L. Slominski
Keyword(s):  
Aimee Semple Mcpherson

scholarly journals Aimee Semple McPherson’s Pentecostalism, Darwinism, Eugenics, the Disenfranchised, and the Scopes Monkey Trial

Pneuma ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-278
Author(s):  
Margaret English de Alminana
Keyword(s):  
School Curriculum ◽  
Social Darwinism ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Aimee Semple Mcpherson ◽  
William Jennings Bryan ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Primary Materials

Abstract This article posits that the cultural battle waged by Aimee Semple McPherson in concert with William Jennings Bryan over evolution and modernism was largely focused on a popular social theory linked to eugenics. On July 21, 1925, in the city of Dayton, Tennessee, a twentieth-century watershed event became a harbinger of the age: The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, popularly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. The public remembers the event as spotlighting the fundamentalist-modernist controversy with respect to the teaching of evolution in the public-school curriculum against the protests of fundamentalist Christians who advocated Creationism. The historical event was far more complicated than the popular recollection. By revisiting primary materials, this investigation will demonstrate that much of the protest voiced by McPherson and Bryan involved Social Darwinism and eugenics and a concern over the impact of these popular theories upon the Social Gospel.

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