Voices and influences
A.W. Tozer
Taught the church to seek God's presence and the fear of the Lord, in forty-four years of Christian and Missionary Alliance pastorates and in The Pursuit of God.
He had no formal theological training.
Summary
This site lists 8 works by this voice and holds no quotation yet. The place to start is The Pursuit of God.
- Lived 1897 to 1963, American.
- The Pursuit of God: Ten short chapters on the soul's pursuit of God, and the shortest way into the one subject he wrote about.
- Tozer taught a filling of the Holy Spirit that comes after conversion, in the deeper life pattern of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
A.W. Tozer
- Lived
- 1897 to 1963
- Nation
- American
- Tradition
- Christian and Missionary Alliance
- Portrait
- None held under a licence this site can print
Own words
This site holds no quotation from A.W. Tozer yet. The reading list below is where to go for this voice's own words in the meantime.
Influence, on the record
On this site, 2 studies draw on this voice.
This site’s own count of what it does with the voice
The Knowledge of the Holy was named to the list of the top fifty books that have shaped evangelicals.
Christianity Today, 2006, as this site's record of the work states it. The record does not give the position on the list.
The Pursuit of God was named to the list of one hundred books of the century.
Christianity Today, 2000, as this site's record of the work states it.
He published twelve books in his lifetime. More than forty have been compiled from his sermons and editorials since his death.
The biography this site holds for him, from the founder's roster file.
The life, in order
- 1897Born at La Jose, Pennsylvania, into a farming family.
- Year not recordedConverted as a teenager in Akron, Ohio, after hearing a street preacher.
- 1919Took his first pastorate with no formal theological training.
- 1928 to 1959Pastor of Southside Alliance Church in Chicago.
- 1948The Pursuit of God published.
- 1950 to 1963Took the editor's chair at the denominational magazine and held it until his death.
- 1955The Root of the Righteous collected from his weekly editorials.
- 1961The Knowledge of the Holy published.
- 1959 to 1963Pastor of Avenue Road Church in Toronto.
- 1963Died on 12 May.
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 – May 12, 1963) was an American pastor, magazine editor, and author who spent his entire 44-year ministry inside the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). Born to a small farming family in La Jose, Pennsylvania, Tozer was converted as a teenager in Akron, Ohio after overhearing a street preacher. Without formal theological education he accepted his first pastorate in 1919; he later pastored Southside Alliance Church in Chicago for 31 years and Avenue Road Church in Toronto for the last four years of his life. From 1950 until his death he edited Alliance Weekly (later The Alliance Witness), the C&MA's denominational magazine. He published 12 books in his lifetime; 40+ more have been compiled posthumously from his sermons and editorials.
8 works
How to read this voice
Tozer is read for one subject, the knowledge of God himself. He wrote as a pastor, so his books move by theme and not by chapter and verse. A reader who wants a passage worked through verse by verse should go to a commentary for that. Read him a few pages at a time, because the books were built out of sermons and weekly editorials and they still read that way.
Start here
The Pursuit of God
1948
Ten short chapters on the soul's pursuit of God, and the shortest way into the one subject he wrote about.
The Knowledge of the Holy
1961
One attribute of God to a chapter, written for a reader with no training in theology.
The Attributes of God, Vol. 1 & 2
compiled posthumously from sermons; published 1997, 2003
The sermons behind The Knowledge of the Holy, compiled and published after his death.
The Root of the Righteous
1955
His weekly editorials collected. The shortest way into the way he wrote week by week.
Of God and Men
1960
Essays on how churches are run and what he thought that habit cost them.
Man: The Dwelling Place of God
compiled posthumously, 1966
Essays on the Spirit's indwelling, compiled after his death.
How to Be Filled With the Holy Spirit
1955
His teaching on the filling of the Holy Spirit, from sermons he preached in 1955.
The Counselor
collected after his death; this site's record does not give the year
Sermons on the Holy Spirit, collected after his death.
Where this voice is quoted
Studies that draw on this voice 2
Where this site parts from this voice
Tozer taught a filling of the Holy Spirit that comes after conversion, in the deeper life pattern of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. This site's tradition is Wesleyan and Pentecostal. It teaches the baptism in the Holy Spirit, with the gifts of 1 Corinthians 12 in full operation today and speaking in tongues among them. Tozer did not work that out.
A.W. Tozer, How to Be Filled With the Holy Spirit, from sermons of 1955.
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