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Gilbert Thomas. Chapter Seven The Evangelical Revival I THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL cannot be understood without some knowledge of the general condition of religion in the eighteenth century . By " religion " I mean Christianity ; and that ...
Gilbert Thomas. Chapter Seven The Evangelical Revival I THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL cannot be understood without some knowledge of the general condition of religion in the eighteenth century . By " religion " I mean Christianity ; and that ...
Page 174
... Revival was a watershed from which issued many streams , " of which Methodism , the largest Protestant sect in the world , is but one . The Revival indirectly reinvigorated every other religious community , and , as Dr. Hutton gladly ...
... Revival was a watershed from which issued many streams , " of which Methodism , the largest Protestant sect in the world , is but one . The Revival indirectly reinvigorated every other religious community , and , as Dr. Hutton gladly ...
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... Revival as a whole dealt Genevan theology a blow from which it never fully recovered . Yet , despite the ever - growing volume of sound literature about the master - builder of the Revival , the idea is still held by ignorant people ...
... Revival as a whole dealt Genevan theology a blow from which it never fully recovered . Yet , despite the ever - growing volume of sound literature about the master - builder of the Revival , the idea is still held by ignorant people ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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