THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING CHARLES FINNEY AND RELIGIOUS REVIVAL
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Jason Finn
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Jason Finny
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Charles Grandison Finney
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Charles Grandison
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lawyer, theologian and college president, Charles Grandison Finney was also the most famous revivalist of the Second Great Awakening. He did not merely lead revivals; he actively marketed, promoted and packaged them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Finney is probably best known for his contribution to the religious movement known as the Second Great Awakening during the 1830s. At the heart of this movement was a series of revivals. Finney was an evangelist who spoke at these revivals, using emotional sermons to urge his audiences to devote their lives to God.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Grandison Finney was one of the most famous and most controversial travelling preachers during the Second Great Awakening. His work is still commended and criticized by a number of groups.
Detailed explanation-4: -Finney was an advocate of perfectionism, the doctrine that through complete faith in Christ believers could receive a “second blessing of the Holy Spirit” and reach Christian perfection, a higher level of sanctification.