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Charles G. Finney
- Entity ID:
- charles-g-finney-
- Long Name:
- Finney, Charles Grandison (1792-1875)
- Short Name:
- Charles G. Finney
- Disambiguation String:
- American revivalist preacher and educator
- Entity Type:
- person
- Entity Subtype:
- author
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- Wikipedia
- Summary:
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Finney was born in Litchfield county, Conn., on Aug. 27, 1792. He studied law from 1818 to 1821, when he had a sudden conversion experience. After this he began to preach and was licensed to preach by the Presbyterian denomination in 1824. Wherever he traveled he started extensive religious revivals.
Finney was criticized because he emphasized the will of man in the process of regeneration and employed revival techniques that became known as "New Measures", calculated to evoke a highly emotional response. Impatient with Presbyterianism, he became a Congregationalist, serving New York City's Broadway Tabernacle.
Finney was appointed professor of theology at Oberlin College (1835), minister of the First Congregational Church at Oberlin (1837), and was named president of the college in 1852. His Lectures on Revivals (1835) became a handbook for American revivalists, and his Lectures on Theology (1846) indicate the modifying influence of evangelicalism on American Calvinism. Finney died at Oberlin on Aug. 16, 1875.
- Viaf ID:
- 5071695
- DB Pedia ID:
- Charles_Grandison_Finney
- Biblical Status:
- extraBiblical
- Is An Individual:
- Yes
- Is Published:
- Yes
- Birth Date:
- August 29, 1792
- Death Date:
- August 16, 1875
- Occupation:
- American revivalist preacher and educator
- Works:
Letters on Revival or Revival Fire
Lectures on Revivals of Religion