Franklin Hall (minister)

Franklin Hall (October 4, 1907 - January 13, 1993) was an American Christian minister and faith healer. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas to Carey F. Hall and Alice M. Hall, he was the oldest of six children. He was a prominent minister in the Healing Revival during the 1940s and 1950s, a well known author in the Pentecostal movement, and an important influence in the Latter Rain movement. His teachings on fasting were particularly influential in the Latter Rain movement, but were controversial elsewhere. Hall founded Miracle Temple in San Diego in 1946, where he established the Fasting and Prayer Daily Revival Center. In 1956 Franklin moved his Phoenix, Arizona, where he established the Hall Deliverance Foundation. Hall did missionary work in Africa and was particularly active in Nigeria during the 1970s. Hall was a lifelong member of the Assemblies of God.[1]

Hall developed several extreme teachings, related to fasting and healing that were rejected by many of his contemporaries. He believed in a "body-felt salvation" wherein the fire of the Holy Spirit was fully applied to a person, would protect the individual from all for sickness, exhaustion. He went so far as to claim those who fully experience salvation would be free from body odor.[2] Hall also offered a formula for raising the dead.[3]