Lectures on Revivals of Religion

About this book

The lectures Finney delivered in New York in the winter of 1834-35, taken down by a reporter and published the same year. They set out the measures he believed produced revival, and they shaped American evangelism for a century afterwards, for better and for worse.

About C. G. Finney

Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875) was a practising lawyer in upstate New York until his conversion at twenty-nine, after which he became the best known revivalist of his generation. He later taught theology at Oberlin College and served as its president. He argued his theology the way he had argued cases, and his "new measures" were contested in his own lifetime.

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library (1835 original); in the public domain.

Contents

1. What a Revival of Religion Is
2. When a Revival Is to Be Expected 🔒
3. How to Promote a Revival 🔒
4. Prevailing Prayer 🔒
5. The Prayer of Faith 🔒
6. The Spirit of Prayer 🔒
7. On Being Filled with the Spirit 🔒
8. Meetings for Prayer 🔒
9. Means to Be Used with Sinners 🔒
10. To Win Souls Requires Wisdom 🔒
11. A Wise Minister Will Be Successful 🔒
12. How to Preach the Gospel 🔒
13. How Churches Can Help Ministers 🔒
14. Measures to Promote Revivals 🔒
15. Hindrances to Revivals 🔒
16. The Necessity and Effect of Union 🔒
17. False Comforts for Sinners 🔒
18. Directions to Sinners 🔒
19. Instructions to Converts 🔒
20. Instructions to Converts 🔒
21. The Backslider in Heart 🔒
22. Growth in Grace 🔒