Island Aflame: The Famed Lewis Awakening that Never Occurred and the Glorious Revival that Did

This carefully compiled volume covers the three years of remarkable church growth in the Outer Hebrides from 1949 to 1952. Of initial note is the subtitle, which at first seems confusing but is later understood upon reading the book. The author is keen to apply historical rigour to a period of church history which, with the passage of time, has become the subject of significant embellishment. The outcome is a systematic approach to assessing widely accepted accounts of this period. Tom Lennie seeks to verify, or refute, these accounts on the basis of eyewitness reports and the earliest written documentation from the time.