Evangelical Revival theology stressed that religious conversion was not only intellectual assent to correct Christian doctrine but had to be a "new birth" experienced in the heart.
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19 Facts About Evangelical Revival
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Evangelical Revival preachers "sought to include every person in conversion, regardless of gender, race, and status".
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In England, the major leaders of the Evangelical Revival were three Anglican priests, the brothers John and Charles Wesley and their friend George Whitefield.
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Evangelical Revival's preaching attracted large crowds who were drawn to his simple message of the necessity of the new birth as well as by his manner of delivery.
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Evangelical Revival's style was dramatic and his preaching appealed to his audience's emotions.
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Evangelical Revival left his followers in Bristol in the care of John Wesley.
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Evangelical Revival established a seminary called the Log College where he trained nearly 20 Presbyterian revivalists for the ministry, including his three sons and Samuel Blair.
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Evangelical Revival understood conversion to be the experience of moving from spiritual deadness to joy in the knowledge of one's election.
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Evangelical Revival's first stop was in Philadelphia where he initially preached at Christ Church, Philadelphia's Anglican church, and then preached to a large outdoor crowd from the courthouse steps.
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Evangelical Revival then moved on to Boston, Massachusetts, where he spent a week.
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Evangelical Revival preached twice in the parish church while Edwards was so moved that he wept.
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Evangelical Revival then spent time in New Haven, Connecticut, where he preached at Yale University.
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Evangelical Revival ordered the burning of books by religious authors such as John Flavel and Increase Mather.
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Evangelical Revival theology focused on the way of salvation, the stages by which a person receives Christian faith and then expresses that faith in the way they live.
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Evangelical Revival was a Rhode Island schoolteacher, and her writings offer a fascinating glimpse into the spiritual and cultural upheaval of the time period, including a 1743 memoir, various diaries and letters, and her anonymously published The Nature, Certainty and Evidence of True Christianity.
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Evangelical Revival lobbied to have slavery reinstated in Georgia and proceeded to become a slave holder himself.
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Evangelical Revival was noted for preaching to African enslaved peoples who converted to Christianity in unusually large numbers, and is credited with the first sustained proselytization of enslaved peoples in Virginia.
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Evangelical Revival believed that Black people could attain knowledge equal to white people if given an adequate education, and he promoted the importance for slaveholders to permit enslaved peoples to become literate so that they could become more familiar with the instructions of the Bible.
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Evangelical Revival suggested that historians abandon the term Great Awakening because the 18th-century revivals were only regional events that occurred in only half of the American colonies and their effects on American religion and society were minimal.
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