February 3 Revolutions of spirit and conscience

I. the Church of England
tithes
livings/ pluralism
latitudinarianism
Joseph Butler, Bishop of Bristol

 

II. evangelical revolution
A. characteristics of Protestant evangelicalism
biblicism
crucicentrism
conversionism
activism

B. continental influences: Pietists, Moravians, Salzburgers

C. Methodism
John Wesley; Charles Wesley; George Whitefield

 

 

 

 

 


John Wesley

 

 

George Whitefield

growth of Methodism

1796 77,000
1821 235,000
1851 725,000

 

D. awakening of Dissent

E. revival within the CofE
Hannah More; William Wilberforce
Clapham Sect

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

III. reform and humanitarian movements

Society for the Reformation of Manners
-1787 Royal Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and for the Preventing and Punishing of Vice, Profaneness, and Immorality

schools

prison reform

treatment of animals

slave trade