April 12, 2024
Autobiography of Charles Finney 1876. Memoirs written by himself
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Memoirs Of Charles G. Finney . Written by Himself (Autobiography) Hardcover - 1876Previous owners name and some notes on blank endpapers. Some underlining and older handwritten margin notes on several pages throughout. Some brown spotting on title page, otherwise clean and bright throughout. Some chips and bumps to spine and corners. Please see all photos for condition details. Contact if you have additional questions.Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 - August 16, 1875) was an AmericanPresbyterian 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.As a popular Christian evangelist, Finney was
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