Catherine Booth

Catherine Booth won wide acclaim during her lifetime as a revivalist, a social reformer and a campaigner for women's rights. She also helped her husband, William Booth, found The Salvation Army. Since then, her life and work have drifted largely out of view, and her theological thinking has been overlooked too, even though it shaped Salvationism, the spiritual life of the movement she helped create.

This study uncovers the theology that lies beneath Catherine Booth's Salvationist spirituality. It traces the ethical questions at the centre of her understanding of salvation, and shows how she held the social and evangelical dimensions of Christian mission together as one whole.

The book presents Catherine Booth as a major figure of the Victorian era: a British theologian and church leader whose intellectual and theological standing was rare, if not unique, for a woman of her time.