The Keswick Week 1951

This volume introduces researchers to the leaders, ideas, and institutions of the Keswick Movement, a strand of holiness teaching that was embraced by many evangelicals who came from the more Calvinistic wing of Protestantism, especially Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians. The Keswick Movement is the most difficult of the three main holiness traditions to delineate. Unlike the Wesleyan Holiness and Holiness Pentecostal traditions, the Keswick Movement has not gone through a definitive period of careful theological refining and institutional boundary setting.

The Bible uses the analogy of physical birth and growth in order to illustrate how one becomes a child of God, and how as such, spiritual growth and development then become possible. Dr. Hudson expounds systematically how the biblical principles in the analogy should be understood and applied. His discussion of Diet and Discipline, under the regimen of faith, carry over into steady spiritual growth and development. He invites all Christians to consider what is expected of them, even in their daily living, if they expect to bring glory to God. He does not pull any punches, but lets his reader know that continuing a childlike level of development can not only bring discontentment to himself, but also great displeasure to God.