Melvin E. Dieter Boeken

Generation after generation of readers have kept Hannah Whitall Smith's The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life in continuous print since its first publication in 1875. Many of them, however, never became well acquainted with similar gems of spiritual devotion that are found not only in her other published writings but also in the thousands of pages of unpublished letters and journals in which she recorded her spiritual journey. In 1982, through the kindness of her great-granddaughter, Barbara Strachey Halpern, the editors were given free access to the family's treasure lode of books, memorabilia, and manuscripts at her home in Oxford, England. The result was God Is Enough. The warm response generated by its first printing in 1986 and supported by the thousands who welcomed each additional printing thereafter indicates that the practical spiritual insights of this most widely read spiritual counselor of the nineteenth century still speak to us today.

The book offers an expanded and updated analysis of perfectionist revivalism's rise and influence in America and Europe, drawing on fifteen years of extensive research on the holiness movement. It highlights the cultural and social implications of this revivalism, maintaining its significance for scholars and researchers interested in these transformative religious movements.

Representatives of five major Protestant perspectives join in this book to present their views on sanctification.