Finney against a backdrop of the 19th Century America & the World

Finney and 19th-Century Trans-atlantic Revivalism

Of course not only women were attracted to the heretical sects that diverged from early church orthodoxy, but women were prominent in their leadership and teachings. Why might this have been?

Is my own physical safety more significant than the deaths of 10,000 refugees?

Jan Amos Comenius was acquainted with scholars, kings, churchmen, businessmen, ordinary and extraordinary men who profoundly influenced his life as he also influenced theirs.

Jan Amos Comenius and Rene Descartes

As Comenius saw it, education was the best way out of the Thirty Years War.

A spiritual hunger grew in reaction to the coldness and formalism of the Protestant state churches. Drawing from diverse roots, Pietism emerged as a quest to apply Reformation doctrine to personal life.

The American Vision of a Covenant People