For For readers wanting the primary texts of the nineteenth-century Holiness movement; not a biography of Palmer.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Phoebe Palmer's own writings on holiness, selected by Oden for Paulist's Sources of American Spirituality.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural3 of 5
Experiential5 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A selection from the writings of Phoebe Palmer (1807-1874), the Methodist evangelist and writer on holiness, edited by Oden and published by Paulist Press in 1988 in its Sources of American Spirituality series. The volume runs to about 360 pages, with a bibliography and indexes, and gives readers Palmer's teaching in her own words.
