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Article: "Fitted to receive the word of God": emotions and scientific naturalism in the Religious Revivals of the 1830s.(Charles Grandison Finney )
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- International Social Science Review
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- March 22, 2006
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Charles Grandison Finney opened his series of weekly Lectures on Revivals of Religion that he delivered in New York in 1835 by asserting that, employing the "laws of nature," a religious revival could be induced among a group of people with the same certainty as one might cultivate a crop of grain. As the foremost figure in a wave of early nineteenth-century religious revivals commonly referred to as the Second Great Awakening, Finney played a key role in formalizing both the theology and the tactics of the movement. Like many other social reformers and religious revivalists of the day, Finney employed the language of "science" to support his views. Likewise, many ...
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