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Book Description<\/h2>\n

The ministry of Edward Irving in London, from its dramatic beginning in 1822 to its tragic close in 1834, when the preacher was only 42, became a talking-point of the 19th Century. And two of the ablest literary figures of the last century, Margaret Oliphant and Thomas Carlyle, ensured that the memory of those remarkable years would not be lost.<\/p>\n

Arnold Dallimore, the biographer of George Whitefield, came to the conviction that although much has been written on Irving since Oliphant and Carlyle, there was need for a new popular account. Strangely, the same spiritual issues which were raised by Irving’s ministry have again become prominent in recent years.<\/p>\n

The<\/em> Life of Irving<\/em> is an easily read and moving story, told with sympathy and honesty. It also seeks to deal accurately with the extraordinary claims which became associated with Irving’s later ministry. Certainly Irving drew the affection of most of the evangelical Christians who knew him. R.M. M’Cheyne, for instance, could write, ‘I look back on him with awe, as on the saints and martyrs of old’. Yet the distinctive features of Irving’s ministry caused considerable alarm among the evangelical churches. The author reveals the reasons why, as well as giving a gripping portrait of this remarkable man.<\/p>\n

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<\/td>\nWho was Edward Irving and why this Book about him?<\/td>\nix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAcknowledgments<\/td>\nxi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA Word on Special Source Material<\/td>\nxiii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPART ONE<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Upward-Moving Career<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA Happy Boyhood<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTeen-aged University Student<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Hard Road to the Ministry<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAssistant to Dr. Chalmers<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Sudden Burst into Fame<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIrving’s Reaction to Popularity<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA Unique Friendship: Irving and Coleridge<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMarriage<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBabylon and Infidelity Foredoomed<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDeath Strikes in the Irving Household<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIrving at his Best – and less than his Best<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAccused of Heresy – ‘Christ’s Sinful Flesh’<\/td>\n77<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIrving at the Height of his Career<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPART TWO<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Downward Course<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Gathering Storm<\/td>\n93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n‘The gift of tongues’ in Scotland<\/td>\n99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n‘The gift of tongues’ in London<\/td>\n109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Gifts in Action<\/td>\n119<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRobert Baxter and ‘The Baptism with Fire’<\/td>\n129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDismissed from his Church and Deposed from the Ministry<\/td>\n143<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n‘The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide’<\/td>\n153<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Expectancy of Healing, the Continuing Sickness, the Untimely Death<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEdward Irving: Fore-runner of the Charismatic Movement<\/td>\n173<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNotes<\/td>\n181<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIndex<\/td>\n185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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