Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Faith healing ministry of Aimee Semple McPherson

Against Deletion
Against deletion Clear reasons why her work would be a standalone topic separately from her life.

The faith healing section was originally part of the main article but was lengthy and detailed enough for its own article as it was adding substantially to the main article which was to be condensed. This occurred in 2015

Therefore only minimal materials currently are present in the main article about her faith healing career as a brief summation.

Some significant pieces in the Faith healing article not currently included in the main article among which are:

1-Conversion of the pagan Romani by faith healing who as a result brought thousands to McPherson and in gratitude contributed many unknown thousands of dollars to the building of the Angelus Temple - as the source biographer stated (Epstein).

P239 -240 Epstein "the American Romani were virtually pagans before she got to them in the 1920's."

Page 235 from Blumhofer: "The gypsies had regularly brought enthusiasm, devotion, and vivid color to Sister’s meetings at least since her Rochester crusade in 1921. (They had adopted Sister as a Romani queen.) Dressed in traditional garb, each Romani carried an offering of flowers to the Temple — ‘a token of gratitude to Mrs. McPherson for the new faith that she has brought to them, and a token of worship to a new God — her God,” the Times noted."

2-Also the controversies about it not in the main articles, for example In 1928, when two clergymen were preaching against her and her "divine healing," McPherson's staff assembled thousands of documents and attached to each of them photos, medical certificates, X-rays and testimonies of healing. The information gathered was used to silence the clergymens' accusations and was also later accessed by some McPherson biographers.

Much of the opposition against her in this area was from theological view of  Cessationism is the view that the “miracle gifts” of tongues and healing have ceased, at the end of the end of the apostolic age.

Granted more in this area could be done to explore the Cessationism aspect in the article and likely the only significant viewpoint missing since already there is the American Medical Association in San Francisco, Pastor Charles S. Price, (skeptic minister who came to believe after he saw) atheist, Charles Chaplin (skilled hypnotism and the power she commanded over the crowds);   P.H. Welshimer of First Christian Church (hypnotism and "mesmeric power") and others in the Views on McPherson’s work section and elsewhere. SteamWiki (talk) 00:19, 9 December 2023 (UTC)