The Restoration of Apostles and Prophets: In the Catholic Apostolic Church (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773565774)

First published in 1861 copies of Robert Norton's Restoration of Apostles and Prophets are now rare to find and not commonly sold in new prints. This new print of this book holds true to the original text with a few corrects made.

This text is essentially a handbook for extreme charismatic and the current Prosperity, Word-of-Faith and New Apostolic Reformation movements. While the roots of those movements can be found in other sources, the first movement to establish the apostolic office in the current era can be directly traced back to Norton and this work. Within this work is also the telling of Margaret MacDonald, who supposedly had a vision of the rapture that many hold to as fact today. While this book does tell that story there are also other accounts of Margaret's sister levitating in this book which put what was happening at the MacDonald's home into question, but Norton holds onto it as a resurgence of the miraculous even though levitation is not something promised to us in the gifts of the Spirit mentioned in the Bible.

This book will need to be judged by future generations, and today's critiques for the effects it has had on the current day church. Those judgements will need to be made to determine if the testimony of this book has been good for the church or not.