Norman Murdoch's scholarly history of the Salvation Army's formative decades, following William and Catherine Booth from their years as Wesleyan and Methodist New Connexion evangelists in the 1850s through the Christian Mission's 1878 reorganization as a quasi-military Salvation Army and into the movement's early social and international expansion. The standard academic account of the Army's institutional origins.
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Published by the University of Tennessee Press as Norman H. Murdoch's scholarly history of the Salvation Army's formative decades, the standard academic account of the Army's institutional origins, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesA university-press monograph, the standard scholarly source for the Army's founding and early institutional history; used here for the founding narrative, the 1861 to 1865 to 1878 timeline, the 1878 renaming, and the movement's Wesleyan doctrinal descent.
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AuthorNorman H. Murdoch
PublisherUniversity of Tennessee Press (Knoxville)
Publication Year1994
Source Typeacademic monograph
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