Talk:John Alexander Dowie

message: It seems that an unusually large portion of this entry is devoted to his debate with the Ahmadiyya Movement.
:Oddly enough, there's an  mosque in the city Dowie founded.  A.J.A. 02:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the article is poorly written with that long rambling non-NPOV section on his debate with Ahmad. It also seems implausible that the Boston Herald would have an article titled Great is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, The Messiah (unless the writer was being facetious). My suggestion would be to merge this article on Dowie into the article on the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. 68.252.39.38 21:22, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree with the suggestion to merge the article on Dowie into the article on the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. My reason is that Dowie created a movement called Dowieism that had impacts on communities around the world far beyond the Christian Catholic Apostilic Church.  This hyperlink provides the results for a search on "Dowieism" in (some) Australian Newspapers that are held in the archives of the National Library of Australia: http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/search?searchTerm=dowieism . This one search of one library's records highlights the impact of Dowieism in England and on colonies/states around Austalia. I have also seen reports on Dowieism in New Zealand.  To merge John Alexander Dowie into the suggested article seems a narrow POV.  I am researching migration and am seeing the impacts of Dowieism.  (Dowieism is not the focus of my research.) Hopefully, someone will generate an article on Dowieism or expand the article on John Alexander Dowie to tell the greater story.  In the meantime, I have created a Dowieism page that Redirects to John Alexander Dowie.--Cruickshanks (talk) 23:36, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Debate with Ahmadiyya

message: I have read a number of books on John Alexander Dowie, and there is so much to his life that is not written here.  So many interesting and amazing things.  The story of his duel with the Islamic movement is such a minor fact that I wouldn't even mention it.  There seems to be a lot of bias in these attempts to show some sort of connection between an off-hand comments and his death.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.41.1.38 (talk) 04:57, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand article

message: While I think the views and sources have merit, that is WAAAAAY too much volume of quoting.  Please consider adding a much, much MUCH smaller bit, citing those as sources.  I won't revert it again immediately but all this is not going to stay.   Also, it was damaged.  Looks like a paste buffer overflow.- sinneed (talk) 03:30, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Definitely a paste job. I'd question it as much on copyright grounds as content. --Mikhailovich (talk) 19:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Huge addition

message: Dowie's time in Australia formed a significant part of his life and ministry. See Barry Chant, The Spirit of Pentecost (Emeth, 2011) for significant original research material on this topic. taborpub.--Taborpub (talk) 01:50, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  J. A. Dowie in Australia 

message: Dowie's time in Australia formed a significant part of his life and ministry. See Barry Chant, The Spirit of Pentecost (Emeth, 2011) for significant original research material on this topic. taborpub.--Taborpub (talk) 01:50, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  J. A. Dowie in Australia 

message: The comment below was placed in the article in the form of a footnote. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:51, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment placed as reference on page 

message: THe following link contains several links to voice recordings of J. A. Dowie's voice recorded live.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.53.148 (talk) 02:49, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cylinder Recordings of J. A. Dowie's Voice