Revival and Revivalism

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Revival and Revivalism
CHURCH HISTORY IILesson 27
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Ancient Church History
Medieval Church History
Modern Church History
Reformation Counter Reformation
Apostolic Church
The First Medieval Pope
The Rise of the Holy Rom Emp
Apostolic Fathers
Rationalism Revivals
The Crusades
Church Councils
Revivalism, Missions, Denominationalism
Modernism
Golden Age of Church Fathers
The Papacy in Decline
The Pre-Reformers
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The 1st Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a glorious work of God
whereby He causeda period of intense spiritual
revival and conversions that enlarged thechurch
with true members and quickened them to Christian
duty.
1720s - The Middle Colonies
1730s The New England Colonies
1740 1750s The Southern Colonies

• EVANGELICAL
• Authority of scripture
• Necessity of new birth
• Intent to spread the gospel
• True conversion worked out in the believers life

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Why did religious fervor fade after the 1st Great
Awakening?
The Disruption of the American Revolution
The Rise of English Deism French Skepticism
Religious Freedom vs. Uniformity Establishment
Western Migration
the land beyond the Sabbath
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The 2nd Great Awakening
Western Frontier
East Coast/ Collages
New England
1800-Logan County, KY
1787 Hampton-Sydney
1801- Cane Ridge, KY
1809-Yale
1815-Princeton
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Revival

• True Revivals
• Not planned

Revivalism

• Soul Doctors

1801-Converted 1809-graduated Yale
20 to 25 thousand converted under his ministry!
Asahel Nettleton 1783-1844
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Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)
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July 1827 New Lebanon conference
Finneys New Measures
Anxious Bench
Naming sinners in prayer
Pointed remarks to sinners in the service
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What was at the heart of the controversy?
Differences in the doctrine of conversion
Cast away from you all transgressions that you
have committed, and make yourselves a new heart
and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of
Israel? Ezekiel 1831
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Finney exalted reason above all
Finney intended to change doctrine
What do you think the results of this has been?