Pratt had struggled in Toronto but did find some interest among a study group with
Irvingite sympathies.
In Chapter One, Zemka juxtaposes Coleridge's Romantic/religious hermeneutics, especially as adumbrated in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Lay Sermons, with the phenomenon of glossolalia in
Irvingite churches, finding similarities in their negotiations with issues of subjectivity and revelation, the sinful-yet-inspired self.
Shaw, The Catholic Apostolic Church, Sometimes Called
Irvingite (Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press Reprint, 1972), p.
Stunt, "
Irvingite Pentecostalism and the Early Brethren," Journal of the Christian Brethren Research Fellowship 10 (1965): 4048.
KIB and AirHogs staff worked for several weeks prior to the event, which was also promoted by the City's Communications Department to encourage
Irvingites to come to the ball park.