John Alexander Dowie

John Alexander Dowie
As Elijah the Restorer, c. 1904
Alias(es)	"Elijah the Restorer"
Born	25 May 1847(1847-05-25) Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	9 March 1907 (59) Zion, Illinois
Burial	Lake Mound Cemetery, Zion, IL
Religion	Congregationalist
Affiliations	Christian Catholic Apostolic Church; International Divine Healing Association
Known for	Founding of Zion, Illinois

John Alexander Dowie (May 25, 1847 - March 9, 1907), also known as John "Elijah" Dowie, was a Scottish Congregational minister and faith healer active in Australia and the United States, whose general theology was known as Dowieism.

Selected Bibliography

• Dowie, John Alexander (1889), American First-Fruits: Being a Brief Record of Eight Months' Divine Healing Missions in the State of California: Conducted by the Rev. John Alex Dowie And Mrs. Dowie From Melbourne, Australia: with an Appendix Containing Two Addresses on Divine Healing Delivered Before the Congregational Ministers' Club of San Francisco, San Francisco: "Leaves of Healing" Office, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008010959 
• Dowie, John Alexander (1900), Zion's Conflict with Methodist Apostasy: Especially in Connection with Freemasonry, Chicago: Zion Publishing House, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102427780 
• Dowie, John Alexander (1900), Zion's Holy War Against the Hosts of Hell in Chicago: a Series of Addresses, Chicago: Zion Publishing House, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006575527 

Dowie also edited the Leaves of Healing (Chicago: Zion Publishing House).

Posthumous

• Dowie, John Alexander (1951), Lindsay, Gordon, ed., The Sermons of John Alexander Dowie: Champion of the Faith, Shreveport, LA: Voice of Healing, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005972955 

Gallery

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  Newcomb, Arthur (1930), Dowie: Anointed of the Lord, New York: The Century Co. 

Notes

• Dowie was credited with making his first major public demonstrations of his faith healing ministry at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1893 World's Fair).