Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia

'This colourful history of the development of the Holiness movement in Australia deserves to be written by someone with a love for all of its variety and even its quirkiness but also by a scholar who is thorough and critically objective. As a "reflexive insider," Glen OBrien is uniquely qualified to do so and has delivered.' Kimberly Ervin Alexander, Regent University, USA 'Dr. Glen OBrien has provided a careful precise analysis of the national and international contexts of the Wesleyan-Holiness Churches of Australia, giving attention to their origins, theologies, cultures and development. The volume is an important contribution to the study of World Christianity with implications for the study and analysis of churches around the word. It is a veritable scholarly "tour de force."' David Bundy, Manchester Wesley Research Centre, UK, and New York Theological Seminary, USA 'This is an important book in Australian Church History studies. It critically examines and evaluates the establishment and development of the Wesleyan-Holiness churches in Australia, particularly in the post-war years. OBrien has captured the challenges they faced and how they have continued to serve the communities where they are located. The lessons to be learned here have an application far beyond the Australian context.' David B. McEwan, Nazarene Theological College, Brisbane, Australia

Glen OBrien is Research Coordinator at Eva Burrows College, within the University of Divinity and a Member of the University of Divinitys Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy. He is a Research Fellow of the Australasian Centre for Wesleyan Research and an Honorary Fellow of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, UK. He has published widely on Wesleyan and Methodist themes and engaged in post-doctoral research at Duke University, Asbury Theological Seminary, Oxford Brookes University, and Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. He co-edited, with Hilary M. Carey, and contributed several chapters, to Methodism in Australia: A History (2015).

1 Introduction 2 Holiness at the Ends of the Earth: The Salvation Army in Australia 3 A Beautiful Virgin Country Ready for a Revival of Bible Holiness: Early Visiting Holiness Evangelists 4 Dark Days and Long Hard Pulls: The Post-War Emergence of Wesleyan-Holiness Churches 5 A Modern Heresy: Opposition on Theological Grounds 6 Just another "Queer Sect" from Over the Pacific: Americanism and Anti-Americanism 7 Joining the Evangelical Club: Moving Along the Church-Sect Continuum 8 They Made a Pentecostal Out of Her: Fire-Baptized Holiness 9 Old Time Methodists in a New World: The Continuing Viability of Conservative Religion 10 Conclusion