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1. Early Life and Conversion Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), pre-Civil War American evangelist and father of modern revivalism (Revivals), was born in Warren, Connecticut, to Sylvester and Rebecca Rice Finney. Like many other New England farmers, the family migrated to New York State—to Oneida County in the Mohawk River Valley in 1794 and, when Charles was 16, north to Jefferson County. Educated in common schools and perhaps Hamilton-Oneida Academy in Clinton, he taught school in Henderson befo…

[English Version] (UCC), prot. Denomination in den USA, 1957 entstanden aus dem Zusammenschluß der Congregatio…

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[German Version] (UCC), Protestant denomination in the United States resulting from the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church (see also Congregationalism). Since both churches were themselves the products of mergers in the 1930s (Unions, Church), the UCC was a model for the ecumenical movement in the 20th century. The new church brought together leading theologians such as R. and H.R. Niebuhr, Douglas Horton, John Bennett, and Roger Shinn. The merg…

[German Version] The German Reformed Church was founded during the Pennyslvania immigration movement in the 1720s. In 1747 two pastors, John …

[German Version] (pre-UCC merger). The Evangelical and Reformed Church was created in 1934 by the union of the Reformed Church in the United States and the Evangelical Synod of North America. Rooted in the 18th- and 19th-century German migration to America, the new church combined Reformed and Lutheran-Reformed …

[German Version] (1590, Austerfield, Yorkshire; baptized Mar 19, 1590 – May 9, 1657, Plymouth, MA), governor and historian of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Bradford belonged to the Separatist congregation at Scrooby, England, which in 1620 migrated to New England because of persecution. From 1621 until his death he was elected governor almost annually and guided the colony to economic stability. He reinforced the Puritan orthodoxy shared with Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut. Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe Bibliography Works include: Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. S. Eliot Mo…

[German Version] The expression revival movement, like the German Erweckungsbewegung…