Background
Tatham was born in Ontario in 1905. He was the son of Charles Goodeve Tatham (1854-1918).
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Ernest Tatham
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He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology from Toronto Bible College
Some of the correspondence courses he wrote remain part of the curriculum to this very day. In 1959, Tatham also founded Kingsway Academy, a Christian school in Nassau, Bahamas. Tatham was a prolific author over a period spanning nearly sixty years.
In addition to course materials for Emmaus Bible College, he wrote a number of books for the wider public.
Among these were Daniel Speaks Today, Forever Secure: Now and Hereafter, Waiting for the Sunrise, Food for New Believers, and Let the Tide Come In! Foreign most of his life, Tatham was a strict cessationist. He argued for this view in the Emmaus course on the Holy Spirit, which he authored in 1942.
He revised his views in the 1970s, however, and in his 1976 book Let the Tide Come In!, he embraced continualism (the view that all spiritual gifts are operating today) and said that his earlier support for cessationism had been mistaken. Indeed, he addressed his book "to all who want God"s gifts, but are unable to accept mainstream Charismatic theology." Although the Third Wave movement as such did not exist at the time, the views he expressed were later adopted by large sections of lieutenant
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In 1970, he was a founding board member of another Christian school. The King"s Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida.
