Dr lewis bishop biography of williams

Lewis Stewart Keizer is an American Gnostic bishop. He serves as bishop of the Home Temple. The biography on his website reads, "Dr. Lewis Keizer is a distinguished independent bishop, respected scholar, lecturer, and professional educator who has been writing and guiding men and women through spiritual studies since He was a student of Mother Jennie, a Spiritualist saint, for six years after leaving theological seminary and it was through her influence that he began to develop true interior spiritual practices and experiences.

Keizer is a multi-talented person whose expertise crosses many disciplines and includes not only academics, but music and the arts, educational, social and environmental reform, and many other areas. He has written, taped, and developed materials for most of the topical areas of Home Temple study. Recent changes. A charge of heresy was also brought against him on the ground that his earlier comments on the first chapter of St.

John in the Family Bible, which were substantially reproduced in the new bible, savoured of Sabellianism, and at the association held at Llandeilo Fawr on 25 May he was expelled from the methodist connection, chiefly at the instigation of Nathaniel Rowlands, son of Daniel Rowlands [q. The death, a short time previously, of the elder Rowlands and of William Williams — [q.

Williams made more than one appeal for readmission, but in vain; he was guilty of nothing worse than a confused mysticism with reference to the doctrine of the Trinity, and the cruel treatment meted to him after his unrivalled services to Welsh methodism stands out as the darkest passage in the history of that body.

Dr lewis bishop biography of williams

Williams retained possession of a chapel which he had been instrumental in having built about on his own land in Water Street, Carmarthen, and here he continued to preach till his death; while the baptists and independents also readily placed their pulpits at his disposal. He and his wife lived for a time at Pibwr and at Moelfre, near Carmarthen; but, according to tradition, were ejected from the latter owing to Williams's methodistical practices.

He eventually settled at a farm called Gelli Lednais in the parish of Llandyfeilog, where he died on 8 Aug. Both were buried in Llandyfeilog churchyard. On 30 Aug. He was survived by three sons: Eliezer Williams [q. There are other letters of his at Trevecca College, while several relics including one letter are in the possession of his descendant, Mr.

Humphreys Davies of Cwrtmawr. The centenary of Williams's death was celebrated in September by the opening of a memorial chapel belonging to the Welsh methodists at Pendine, close to Williams's birthplace. Besides his strictly religious labours, Williams did much to raise the standard of Welsh literature. Lewis Edwards's essays—Traethodau Llenyddol, pp.

The bishop of his diocese, however, discouraged him from this pursuit, feeling that most parishes would not accept a Black priest. With this in mind, Williams joined the Navy and became an officer. Upon leaving the Navy, he pursued an undeterred desire to be a priest and went on to earn a degree from General Theological Seminary. In he was ordained a deacon and made a priest the following year.

Williams endowed several libraries during the course of his career, at Westminster School, at his palace at Buckden, and at St John's, where he responded to an appeal from Valentine Carey , his cousin and a Fellow of St John's, to provide funds for a building to accommodate William Crashaw's books , which the Library had recently acquired for a fuller description of this see the History of the Old Library.

Gaining actual possession of Williams's books proved very difficult for St John's, however. During Williams's detention in the Tower, a man named Kilvert gained control of his study at Buckden, and while he was in charge books intended for St John's went missing. Eventually they came to the College for a brief period, but on Williams's rehabilitation in he requested their transfer to Westminster, and later still in he required some to be brought to him in Wales.

Consequently the Old Library has a limited selection of items that bear Williams's provenance. Such books as there are cover a wide variety of subjects. Many are concerned with contemporary doctrinal theology, forms of prayer and ecclesiastical debates, but there are also anatomical, mathematical, classical and linguistics texts.