Introduction

Biography

Essek was the son of Will­iam A. Ken­yon and Anne Eli­za Knox. He mar­ried twice: to Eva S. Spur­ling (May 8, 1893) and Al­ice Maude Whit­ney (1914).

In 1898, he op­ened the Beth­el Bi­ble In­sti­tute in Spen­cer, Mas­sa­chu­setts, and was its pr­es­ident for 25 years. Af­ter moves and name chang­es, the school merged with Gor­don Col­lege in Wen­ham, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Works

• The Fa­ther and His Family: The Story of Man’s Re­demp­tion, 1916
• The Won­der­ful Name of Je­sus, 1927
• Kenyon’s Liv­ing Po­ems 1935
• Signposts on the Road to Suc­cess, 1938
• The Two Kinds of Know­ledge, 1938
• Jesus the Heal­er, 1940
• Identification: A Ro­mance in Re­demp­tion, 1941
• New Kind of Love, 1942
• The Two Kinds of Faith, 1942
• The Two Kinds of Right­eous­ness, 1942
• The Two Kinds of Life, 1943
• In His Pre­sence: The Secr­et of Pray­er, 1944
• New Cre­ation Re­al­ities, 1945
• What Hap­pened: From the Cross to the Throne, 1945