The Christian and Missionary Alliance: an Annotated Bibliography of Textual Sources
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H. D. (Sandy) Ayer was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, in 1952 and grew up in the semi-wilderness of Kitimat, B.C., where he acquired his love of nature. Following his graduation from library school in 1984, he and his wife Diane moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where Sandy began work as director of library services at Canadian Bible College/Canadian Theological Seminary. His interest in Alliance bibliography stems from his roles as institutional archivist and administrator of the library’s special collection in Allianceana and his love of collecting things. The 6' 8' author has the distinction of being perhaps the world’s tallest theological librarian. He and Diane have two children, Adam, 15, and Hannah, 12. Sandy reads to relax and birds for excitement. If he were ever to write another book, it would be about his experiences as a birder. The Christian and Missionary Alliance: An Annotated Bibliography of Textual Sources H. D. (Sandy) Ayer 7 Dedication Dedicated to John Sawin, Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor, missionary to Vietnam, archivist, historian, and bibliographer. John’s passion for early Allianceana led him to collect, organize, and catalogue, with the help of his late wife Woneta, the thousands of books, periodicals, pamphlets, tracts, and other documents that now form the basis of the special collections and archives at both the C&MA headquarters in Colorado Springs and Canadian Bible College/Canadian Theological Seminary in Regina, Sask. This volume builds on the bibliographical foundation he has laid. 8 9 Contents Series Editor’s Foreword xi Foreword xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xix Books, Essays, Articles, Theses, Pamphlets, and Tracts 1 Periodical Sources 367 Personal Name Index 387 Subject Index 393 About the Author 403 10 11 Series Editor’s Foreword The American Theological Library Association Bibliography Series is designed to stimulate and encourage the preparation of reliable bibliographies and guides to the literature of religious studies in all of its scope and variety. Compilers are free to define their field, make their own selections, and work out internal organization as the unique demands of the subject indicate. We are pleased to publish this annotated bibliography of literature by and about the Christian and Missionary Alliance as number 45 in our series. H. D.(Sandy) Ayer completed undergraduate studies in French at the University of British Columbia and earned an M.C.S. at Regent College and an M.L.S at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library and Information Science. Mr. Ayer currently serves as director of library services of the Archibald Foundation Library of Canadian Bible College/Canadian Theological Seminary (CBC/CTS) in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He also serves as the archivist of both CBC/CTS and the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada and is an active member of West Side Alliance Church. Kenneth E. Rowe Series Editor Drew University Library Madison, NJ 07940 USA 11 12 12 13 Foreword Charles Edwin Jones The publication of H. D. (Sandy) Ayer’s The Christian and Missionary Alliance: An Annotated Bibliography of Textual Sources, provides for the first time access to a definitive body of material on the internal life of this mission-centered fellowship, which under the banner of the fourfold gospel—Jesus Christ: Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King—has provided for its people a bridge over nearly every rift in the revivalistic evangelicalism of the past century. The uncomplicated design of the work—alphabetical annotated lists of books and articles and of periodical titles with personal-subject name and topical indexes—makes for quick access to more than 2,500 items relating to more than 2.4 million Christian and Missionary Alliance adherents worldwide. The objective tone of the annotations and the inclusion of sometime adherents—the Alliance did not officially become a denomination until 1974—enhance the utility of the work. The stress placed on works by the group’s great spiritual leaders, A. B. Simpson and A. W. Tozer, also adds to its strength. Mr. Ayer, in short, brings to the fore the vast landscape of this unique fellowship. 13 14 14 15 Preface Purpose This bibliography grew out of my desire, and that of Alliance historians John Sawin and Charles Nienkirchen, to discover the universe of “Allianceana.” The twofold purpose of our quest was to develop the special collection of Canadian Bible College/Canadian Theological Seminary’s library and to determine which Alliance imprints need to be preserved. As doctoral students and other scholars began using the special collection these somewhat parochial concerns were augmented by a desire to make available to researchers more of the rich resources of the Alliance oeuvre in such areas of current interest as evangelicalism, missions, the divine healing movement, the Holiness movement, and evangelical spirituality. My particular personal hope is that this work will facilitate the writing of critical scholarly biographies of such Alliance luminaries as A. B. Simpson, A. W. Tozer, Paul Rader, and R. A. Jaffray. Scope As its title indicates this work is restricted to textual resources, i.e., primary and secondary source materials in the form of books, periodicals, articles, essays, booklets, pamphlets, tracts, and theses. Coverage extends from A. B. Simpson’s first published work (1880) to the present (1999). A concerted, though unsuccessful, attempt has been made to document the entire published corpus of both Simpson and A. W. Tozer, since these Alliance luminaries are likely to be of greatest interest to scholars. When I began this work I failed to realize that even an apparently 15 16 narrow subject like the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) would prove to be so vast and so incapable of precise definition. Ultimately I decided to steal a page from A. B. Simpson by restricting my focus to the fourfold Gospel, broadly conceived. The result looks to my mind less like a universe and more like a cluster of somewhat nebulous galaxies. This is what one ought to expect, I suppose, from a phenomenon that began life as a broadly based and loosely organized parachurch movement with strong Holiness leanings and has evolved into a highly structured denomination--one that is moving in an increasingly Reformed and generically evangelical direction. As was implied above, the bibliographical boundaries of the C&MA are ill-defined at best, and so it has been difficult to determine which subjects and which authors to include. Is a subject worthy of inclusion simply because Alliance authors have written about it? And who is an “Alliance author” anyway? Should the works of anyone who teaches in an Alliance college or seminary be included? Which of Simpson’s early associates are closely enough associated with the C&MA to have their works included if they were not published by an Alliance press? Should all Alliance imprints be included? What topics ought to be regarded as being germane to the fourfold Gospel? Such questions as these are not easily answered, as my frequently changing card and computer files of deletions and tentative deletions demonstrate. At any rate, in my attempt to bring order out of bibliographical chaos I have had to make some considered yet seemingly arbitrary decisions that will not please every potential user of the work. The following fringe (i.e., lying at the extreme edges of the fourfold Gospel, broadly conceived) subjects and material types are included: 16 Preface 17 Missiological works of a theoretical nature D.Min. projects that are not merely studies of a particular congregation Literature (i.e., poetry and novels) that exemplifies Alliance piety Reprints by Alliance publishers of works by non-Alliance authors that reflect Alliance distinctives Selected works in church management and Christian education The following fringe subjects and material types are not included: Works in the social sciences, even if written from an explicitly Christian perspective Works that bear an Alliance imprint but that are unrelated to Alliance themes Most local church histories Translations of works originally published in English Works in non-Latin alphabets (with the exception of two Chinese language works) Nonprint materials (including electronic resources) Works by Arno Clemens Gaebelein, James H. Brookes, Seth Cook Rees, and others whose connection to the Alliance seemed too tenuous to warrant their being considered “Alliance authors” Works published subsequent to an author’s severing of ties with the Alliance, e.g. the post-departure writings of Oswald J. Smith and Paul Rader Articles in Alliance organs In the context of the foregoing criteria my principles of selection also included a bias toward including works published prior to ca. 1950, since these are likely to reflect a distinctive ethos, and excluding later works. Some entries lack annotations either because their titles 17 18 Preface may be so thoroughly descriptive as to make an annotation redundant or because I have not been able to acquire the documents to which they refer. Sources The special collections of the Archibald Foundation Library in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the A.B. Simpson Historical Library in Colorado Springs, Colorado, provided the majority of the materials described in this bibliography. John Sawin’s voluminous notes on Alliance personages provided leads on additional writings, as did subject and known-author searches of OCLC’s FirstSearch database; the National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints; the Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada; ResAnet, the online catalogue of the National Library of Canada; the ATLA’s Religion Indexes; Dissertation Abstracts; the Dictionary Catalog of the Missionary Research Library, New York; subject bibliographies on Pentecostalism, evangelicalism, and the Holiness movement; the “recent publications” lists in the annual reports of the C&MA; and the bibliographies and advertising supplements of works located via the sources just enumerated.