Phoebe Palmer

Phoebe Palmer (1807–1874) was an American Methodist preacher and writer whose teaching helped shape the 19th-century Holiness movement and advocate for women’s public ministry.

Walter C. Palmer: An American physician and Methodist minister who supported and collaborated with Phoebe Palmer. Her husband joined her in preaching, publishing, and conducting revival meetings.
Altar Theology: A Holiness teaching that treats consecration to God as sufficient grounds for trusting in sanctification. Palmer’s central practical argument was that the altar sanctifies the gift placed upon it.
Tuesday Meeting for the Promotion of Holiness: A New York prayer meeting founded by Phoebe Palmer in 1835 to promote Christian holiness. It became a regular setting for her teaching and attracted participants from many denominations.
Women’s ordination: The authorization of women to serve as ordained clergy in a religious institution. Palmer advocated women’s preaching, though her ministry did not depend on formal ordination.
John Wesley: An English cleric whose preaching and writings founded the Methodist movement. Palmer grounded her teaching on holiness in Wesleyan theology.
Christian perfection: A Christian doctrine describing complete love of God and neighbor as attainable through divine grace. Palmer presented entire sanctification as a form of the Wesleyan pursuit of perfect love.
The Way of Holiness: A book by Phoebe Palmer, published in 1843, explaining her approach to sanctification. Palmer developed her practical teaching on holiness in this influential work.
Methodist Episcopal Church: An American Protestant denomination formed in 1784 from the Methodist movement. Palmer worked within this denomination while pressing against limits on women’s public ministry.
Lorenzo Dow: An American Methodist evangelist known for itinerant preaching and revival work. His preaching helped shape the revival culture in which Palmer later ministered.
Entire sanctification: A Christian doctrine that believers may be cleansed from sin and wholly devoted to God in this life. This was the spiritual experience Palmer urged believers to seek and publicly testify to.

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