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Charles Grandison Finney | |
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| 2nd President of Oberlin College | |
| In office 1851–1866 | |
| Preceded by | Asa Mahan |
| Succeeded by | James Fairchild |
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| Born | August 29, 1792 Warren, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 16, 1875 (aged 82) Oberlin, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Profession | Presbyterian minister, evangelist, revivalist, author |
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Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was a controversial American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism".[1] Finney rejected much of traditional Reformed theology.
Finney was best known as a passionate revivalist preacher from 1825 to 1835 in the Burned-over District in Upstate New York and Manhattan, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian theology, an advocate of Christian perfectionism, and a religious writer.
His religious views led him, together with several other evangelical leaders, to promote social reforms, such as abolitionism and equal education for women and African Americans. From 1835 he taught at Oberlin College of Ohio, which accepted students without regard to race or sex. He served as its second president from 1851 to 1865, and its faculty and students were activists for abolitionism, the Underground Railroad, and universal education.
- ^ Hankins, Barry (2004). The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 137. ISBN 0-313-31848-4..