Appendix: Source References

Scripture quotations are from the NET Bible Second Edition unless otherwise noted. The figures and works cited in this volume, in roughly the order a reader meets them:

Leona Choy

Twentieth-century author and missionary. Powerlines: What Great Evangelicals Believed About the Holy Spirit, 1850-1930 (1990) presents the convictions of the era's leading evangelical voices on the Spirit, drawn from their own writings.

D.L. Moody (1837-1899)

American evangelist. A Chicago shoe salesman with little formal education who became the most fruitful evangelist of his century, preaching across America and Britain.

Andrew Murray (1828-1917)

South African pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church and devotional author. His books on the inner life of the believer include The Spirit of Christ (1888) and Abide in Christ.

Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)

English missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission. His 1869 letters describing the exchanged life — resting in Christ rather than striving — are preserved in Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret.

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

English Baptist preacher, pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, often called the Prince of Preachers.

E.M. Bounds (1835-1913)

American Methodist pastor and Civil War chaplain whose books, including Power Through Prayer, concern almost exclusively the life of prayer.

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)

Scottish Bible teacher and chaplain. His talks were compiled by his wife into My Utmost for His Highest, among the most widely read devotionals ever published.

Brother Lawrence (c. 1614-1691)

Born Nicholas Herman in French Lorraine; lay brother in the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Paris. His conversations and letters were published after his death as The Practice of the Presence of God (1692).

Justin Martyr (c. 100-165)

Early Christian apologist. His Dialogue with Trypho (c. 155) records that the prophetic gifts remained present in the church of his day.

Irenaeus (c. 130-202)

Bishop of Lyon in Gaul. His major work Against Heresies (c. 180) describes prophecy and healing operating in churches he knew personally.

Athanasius (c. 296-373)

Bishop of Alexandria and defender of the deity of Christ. On the Incarnation (c. 318) presents the Son's assumption of human nature to heal it from within; his Letters to Serapion (c. 360) defend the full deity of the Spirit.

Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386)

Bishop of Jerusalem. His Catechetical Lectures (c. 350), delivered to new believers, teach that the Spirit comes to each and abides undivided.

Basil of Caesarea (c. 330-379)

Bishop in Cappadocia (Asia Minor). His treatise On the Holy Spirit (375) argues the Spirit's full deity from the divine works the Spirit performs.

Augustine (354-430)

Bishop of Hippo in North Africa. Book 15 of De Trinitate — On the Trinity — (completed c. 419) presents the Spirit as the love proceeding from the Father and the Son, poured into the believer's heart.

Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376-444)

Bishop of Alexandria. Taught that the Spirit joins the believer to the Son, so that the Son's relation to the Father becomes the believer's own.

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

French abbot and reformer of monastic life. Described the Spirit as the kiss of the Father and the Son — the eternal love between them, given to the believer.

Thomas a Kempis (c. 1380-1471)

Dutch monk. The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418-1427) is among the most widely read Christian books outside the Bible.

William Samarin

Linguist at the University of Toronto. His study Tongues of Men and Angels (1972) analyzed recordings of tongues-speech and found it lacks the structure of human language.

Open Doors

International organization founded in 1955 that monitors and serves the persecuted church; publishes the annual World Watch List ranking the most dangerous countries for Christians.

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