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The War Cry | JANUARY 2013
by
COLONEL BRIAN TUCK
photo illustration by
BETO CHAGAS
Come?
When Will
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evivalism is the Protestant movement
concerned with the conversion and salva-
tion of the individual and includes the at-
tempt to appeal to the masses on behalf of
Christ. This term refers to strains of 17th
and 18th century strands of Anabaptism, Puritan-
ism and Pietism, which stressed personal religious
experience, the ideal of a holy life and the priesthood
of all believers. It was set against the spiritual luke-
warmness and sacramentalism of the established
churches of the day. Yet, sadly, what began as revival
degenerated into "revivalism" as we know it today.
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