Charles Grandison Finney was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States.
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23 Facts About Charles Finney
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Charles Finney was best known as a passionate revivalist preacher from 1825 to 1835 in the Burned-over District in Upstate New York and Manhattan, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian theology, an advocate of Christian perfectionism, and a religious writer.
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Charles Finney served as its second president from 1851 to 1865, and its faculty and students were activists for abolitionism, the Underground Railroad, and universal education.
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Charles Finney "read the law", studying as an apprentice to become a lawyer under Benjamin Wright.
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In 1821, Charles Finney started studies at 29 under George Washington Gale, to become a licensed minister in the Presbyterian Church.
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When Gale moved to a farm in Western, Oneida County, New York, Charles Finney accompanied him and worked on Gale's farm in exchange for instruction, a forerunner of Gale's Oneida Institute.
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Charles Finney had many misgivings about the fundamental doctrines taught in Presbyterianism.
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Charles Finney moved to New York City in 1832, where he was minister of the Chatham Street Chapel and took the breathtaking step of barring all slave owners and traders from Communion.
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Charles Finney was active as a revivalist from 1825 to 1835 in Jefferson County and for a few years in Manhattan.
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Charles Finney was known for his innovations in preaching and the conduct of religious meetings, which often impacted entire communities.
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Charles Finney poured the floods of gospel love upon the audience.
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Charles Finney took short-cuts to men's hearts, and his trip-hammer blows demolished the subterfuges of unbelief.
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Disciples of Charles Finney included Theodore Weld, John Humphrey Noyes, and Andrew Leete Stone.
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Charles Finney frequently denounced slavery from the pulpit, called it a "great national sin, " and refused Holy Communion to slaveholders.
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Charles Finney was a New School Presbyterian, and his theology was similar to that of Nathaniel William Taylor.
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Charles Finney departed strongly from traditional Calvinist theology by teaching that people have a completely free will to choose salvation.
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Charles Finney focused on the responsibilities that converts had to dedicate themselves to disinterested benevolence and to work to build the kingdom of God on earth.
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Charles Finney's eschatology was postmillennial, meaning he believed the Millennium would begin before Christ's Second Coming.
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Charles Finney believed Christians could bring in the Millennium by ridding the world of "great and sore evils".
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Charles 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.
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For Charles Finney, that meant living in obedience to God's law and loving God and one's neighbors but was not a sinless perfection.
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Charles Finney believed that it is possible for Christians to backslide, even to the point of losing their salvation.
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Charles Finney School was established in Rochester, New York, in 1992.
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