E. W. Kenyon

Essek William Kenyon ( EW Kenyon also; born April 24, 1867 in Hadley, New York (State); † March 19, 1948 ) was an evangelical pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church and President of the Bible Institute in Spencer, Massachusetts. He is considered a forerunner of the Word of Faith - movement.

Life

Kenyon was born into a poor family. Although he hardly went in his youth to the church, he was early 20's a member of a Methodist church in Amsterdam (New York) - where he also gave his first sermon. He earned his livelihood at this time as piano and organ sellers. According to his desire to become an actor, he attended from 1892, the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston, but already broke this study after one year again. During his time at the Emerson School, he came into contact with the so-called New Thought Movement, which shaped his understanding of Christian doctrine significantly. In his younger years, Kenyon described himself as agnostic.

1893 married Kenyon Evva Spurling, who also saw himself as an agnostic. Shortly after their marriage, the two visited together a Baptist church and were devout Christians - then Kenyon announced his intention to become an actor and was pastor of a small church in Elmira (New York).

In 1898 he opened the Bethel Bible Institute in Spencer (Massachusetts), which he directed until 1923 as President, and then build up in Seattle after a short time as pastor of a Baptist church in Pasadena (California ) in 1931, the New Covenant Baptist Church. He also launched a radio sermon program, Kenyon 's Church of the Air

Especially in terms of healing and faith - - Although during his lifetime Kenyon enjoyed no very great fame, his teachings have influenced many preachers of the subsequent period up to the present. Especially with a representative of a so-called prosperity gospel his ideas are widely used today. Although Kenyon himself - like many, still follow his teachings - always denied a substantive connection to the New Thought Movement, it will be but it seems that on closer examination of his theology.

Theology

Kenyon stressed the idea that the nature of God and the human mind can unite, so that the Divine is a part of the consciousness of the believer. Through the knowledge of divine revelation one could exceed the limits of the senses and the mind, and so to act " in the faith ". The in- words - Grasp one's own needs and desires - that is, the " inside " of a person - is a kind of mediation between the physical and spiritual realms for Kenyon. So come from him even to this day in the Word of Faith - Movement widespread sentence: " What I confess, I possess. "

Daniel Ray McConnell sits down in his publication " Another Gospel " detail with Kenyon apart. He sees in Kenyon's teachings, a dualistic theory of knowledge, which in turn is derived to him by the New Thought Movement: The Spirit constitutes the basic, ideally all-powerful divine identity of a person. From Kenyon repeatedly stressed assumption that healing first done on a spiritual level before it manifests on the physical plane, there is a hierarchical structure of reality: The intellectual, spiritual area is both design as well as anticipation of events in the physical world. The individual located so being continuously in a contest of strength limitation (eg Human fallibility ) and transcendence ( the limitless divine identity).

Publications

  • The Wonderful Name of Jesus. West Coast Publishing Co., Los Angeles, 1927
  • Jesus the Healer. Kenyon 's Gospel Publishing Society, 1940
  • The Two Kinds of Faith. Seattle, 1942
  • New Creation Realities. Seattle, 1945
  • What happend from the Cross to the Throne. Seattle, 1945
  • In His Presence. 14th Edition, Lynnwood; Washington, Kenyon Gospel Publishing Society, 1969
  • The Bible in the Light of Our Redemption. Kenyon 's Gospel Publishing Society, Our Redemption, 1969
  • The Hidden Man. Kenyon 's Gospel Publishing Society, 1970
  • Two Kinds of Life. Kenyon 's Gospel Publishing Society, 1971
  • Identification: A Romance in Redemption. Kenyon 's Gospel Publishing Society, 1986
  • Power of Your Words. Whitaker House, 1995, ISBN 0883683482 (along with Don Gossett )
  • The Power of Spoken Faith. Whitaker House, 2003, ISBN 0883686759 (along with Don Gossett )
  • The two questions of justice. The most important message that the community was ever offered. Shalom Verlag, Runding. Without year.
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