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Charles Finney
1792 – 1875 · United States
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)
In the Life of the Saints
A lawyer who experienced a dramatic conversion and abandoned his practice to preach, Finney became the leading revivalist of America's Second Great Awakening. His innovations, like the public “altar call,” shaped how American evangelicalism would practice conversion for generations after him.
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