Firestorms of Revival

Firestorms of Revival
Author: Bob Griffin
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1599790645

Learn the ten characteristics of revival, and see the move of God change not only your ministry, but your community.

The Great Revivalists in American Religion, 1740-1944

The Great Revivalists in American Religion, 1740-1944
Author: William H. Cooper, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 078646206X

This book presents a historical and theological understanding of how and why Christian revivalism came to be what it is, mainly a series of ineffective meetings. The work shows how revivalism moved from the Edwardian emphasis on the amazing works of God, as the Puritans would have put it, to the "new methods" of Charles Finney and revival as the reasonable works of man as befits Jacksonian democracy. Later, D.L. Moody concentrated on methodology to such a degree that revivals became big business and the focus of the Gilded Age. With Billy Sunday, revivalism has lost all content and has become nothing more than entertainment.

Reading Jonathan Edwards

Reading Jonathan Edwards
Author: M.X. Lesser
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2008-02-13
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0802862438

This compilation of reader response to Jonathan Edwards, spanning 276 years, includes a reprint of two earlier works ? Jonathan Edwards: A Reference Guide (1981) and Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography (1994) ? and the publication of a third, a gathering of commentary from 1994 to 2005. Nearly 140 essays have been added to the first and second works, while the last new gathering ? which includes a celebration of the tercentenary of Edwards??'s birth ? adds another 700 to the whole. The text preserves the pattern of arranging items alphabetically within a given year and of recording cross-references. Essays in a collection are annotated serially rather than alphabetically. Each of the three sections is self-contained with an introduction and annotated bibliography of its own. Adding to the immense value of this work to Edwards scholars are the chronology of Edwards??'s works, listed by date and by short and long title, which precedes the entire work, and the three comprehensive indexes ? of authors and titles, of subjects, and additions to the previous volumes.

The Light of the Nations

The Light of the Nations
Author: J. Edwin Orr
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1597526991

The nineteenth century, observes Dr. Orr, was the century of Christian action and accomplishment. The social and political upheavals of the late eighteenth century were followed by a decline in Christian witness so serious that it seems as though Christianity was near death. In despair, Christian leaders prayed for Divine intervention; and answer came--a series of six great waves of evangelical renewal and advance which made the nineteenth century the Great Century of evangelism. From this study of Evangelical Revivals it is possible to trace a pattern of action and discover a progression of achievement which demonstrates that the same Spirit of God who moved the apostles continues to operate in the world. Dr. Orr suggests that the evangelical awakenings may be shown to be the foremost method of an Almighty God to promote the betterment of all mankind, and His primary instrument to win men to transforming faith in Himself.

Modern Revivalism

Modern Revivalism
Author: William G. McLoughlin
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2004-10-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725212684

This book is concerned with religious revivalism in the United States since 1825. It attempts to explain the part which revivalism has played, and is playing today, in the social, intellectual, and religious life of America. The aim has been, in describing the development of modern revivalism and the men who devoted their lives to it, to look below the surface phenomenon in an effort to discover why revivals have constantly recurred, what their effects have been, and what they meant not only to those directly concerned but to all Americans. If the revivals of the past century and a quarter have not always been the crucial factors in the course of American history that their devout exponents claimed, they have nevertheless been more significant than the social historians have yet acknowledged. from the Preface