Background
Durham was born in 1873 in rural Kentucky and joined his family"s Baptist church. However, he would only experience conversion later.
Durham was born in 1873 in rural Kentucky and joined his family"s Baptist church. However, he would only experience conversion later.
Raised in a Reformed tradition, Durham found difficult to accept the then-widespread Wesleyan doctrine of a three-stage salvation process held by most Pentecostals.
Durham planned to systemize his theology in order to explain his point of view and published drafts of it in his periodical, but he would not complete it as he died of pneumonia in Los Angeles in 1912.