Charles Grandison Finney
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1792 – 1875
Who was Charles Grandison Finney?
Charles Grandison Finney was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism. Finney was best known as an innovative revivalist during the period 1825-1835 in upstate New York and Manhattan, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian theology, an advocate of Christian perfectionism, and a religious writer.
Together with several other evangelical leaders, his religious views led him to promote social reforms, such as abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans. From 1835 he taught at Oberlin College of Ohio, which accepted both genders and all races. He served as its second president from 1851 to 1866, during which its faculty and students were activists for abolition, the Underground Railroad, and universal education.
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- Born
- Aug 29, 1792
Warren - Also known as
- Charles Finney
- Spouses
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Lived in
- Connecticut
- Died
- Aug 16, 1875
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on July 23, 2013
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