Talk:John Alexander Dowie

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I'd like to see a heading about Dowie's claim to being Elijah reborn: a pretty contentious claim to say the least and one that falls right under the radar in this article, under the guise of his debate with Ahmadiyya.

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)

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)

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)