AA Allen

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Asa Alonso Allen (born March 27, 1911 in Sulfur Rock, Arkansas , † June 11, 1970 in San Francisco , California ) was an American Pentecostal pastor and healing evangelist .

Life

AA Allen was born in Sulfur Rock, Arkansas in 1911. His mother was of Native American descent and left the family when AA Allen was just four years old. AA Allen found his Christian faith in 1934 through the Onward Methodist Church in Miller, Missouri . After accepting Pentecostal doctrine , he joined the Assemblies of God , through which he was ordained a pastor in 1936. He became Pentecostal leader in Holly, Colorado and from 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas .

In 1949 he attended an event organized by the healing evangelist Oral Roberts in Dallas, Texas, and decided to join the healing movement as well. In addition to Oral Roberts, William Branham and Jack Coe , AA Allen became one of the most famous Christian spiritual healers of the Healing Revival , whose campaign successes found their way into the monthly magazine “ The Voice of Healing ” initiated by Gordon Lindsay . Because of his miraculous healings and exorcisms , he has been referred to as the “Miracle Man” and the “boldest of the bold”. Another special feature of his events was that his worship team was led by Gene Martin - an African American . From 1953, AA Allen appeared on various radio shows and was widely popular. His national fame was damaged when he was suspiciously and temporarily arrested in 1955 in Knoxville, Tennessee , for alcohol in traffic. AA Allen spoke of a false accusation and "the devil's trick" to harm his ministry. Critics saw it merely as a cover-up of AA Allen's alcohol addiction. Due to the negative headlines and the lack of support, Allen split from the Assemblies of God and the Voice of Healing Organization. From then on he appeared as an independent revival preacher, acquired the mission tent of the healing evangelist Jack Coe, who died in 1956, and founded the Miracle Revival Fellowship . His sermons increasingly contained criticism of the Christian denominations, which in his opinion would limit the work of God. AA Allen ran its own publishing house with AA Allen Revivals Incorporation , which among other things published the monthly magazine Miracle Magazine . AA Allen was a successful writer and author of over 50 books on spiritual healing, the power of God, and demonology . He also had his own record studio, the “Miracle Revival Recordings”. As a radio and television evangelist, AA Allen reached a large audience and proclaimed that poverty was a demonic spirit and that financial or material prosperity was a sign of divine blessing ( prosperity gospel ). In keeping with his teaching, AA Allen was donated a piece of land near Palominos, Arizona in 1958 , renamed it Miracle Valley and founded the Miracle Valley Bible College . His success helped him, among other things, to an article in TIME Magazine . AA Allen died in a hotel room in San Francisco, California in 1970 . Critics attribute his untimely death to excessive drinking, while proponents believe that he was an unrelated heart attack.

His work continues today through AA Allen Ministries in Tucson, Arizona.

Fonts (selection)

  • Receive Ye the Holy Ghost
  • The Price of God's Miracle Working Power
  • Visitation from God
  • Let My People Go
  • Demon Possession Today and How to be Free (1953)
  • My Vision of the Destruction of America: or Will Russia Invade America? (1954)
  • God's Gurantee to Heal You (1968)
  • Born to Lose, Bound to Win (1970 autobiography)

literature

  • David Edwin Harrell, All Things are possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in modern America , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 1975
  • John W. Carver Jr., The Life and Ministry of AA Allen , Faith Outreach International Publishing, 2010
  • Arlene Sanchez Walsh, Pentecostals in America , Columbia University Press, New York, NY 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States , Volume 5, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland 2016, p. 858
  2. ↑ Roy Weremchuk, THUS Saith the Lord? , Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2019, p. 135
  3. ↑ Roberts Liardon, God's Generals: AA Allen , Whitaker House, New Kensington, Pennsylvania in 2013
  4. ↑ James Robinson, Divine Healing: The Years of Expansion, 1906-1930 , Pickwick Publications, Eugene, Oregon 2014, p. 154
  5. ^ Jan Morris, The Preachers , St. Martin's Press, New York, NY 1973, p. 15
  6. ↑ See Steven Phipps, AA Allen & Miracle Valley , Harrison House, Tulso, Oklahoma 2017
  7. ^ TIME Magazine , New York, NY, March 7, 1969
personal data
SURNAME Allen, AA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allen, Asa Alonso (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Pentecostal pastor and healing evangelist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulfur Rock, Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1970
Place of death San Francisco , California