God's Generals: The Revivalists
Roberts Liardon · Whitaker House, 2008
About this book
God's Generals: The Revivalists by Roberts Liardon
God’s Generals: The Revivalists is the third volume in Roberts Liardon’s best-selling God’s Generals series, tracing more than two and a half centuries of revival history through the lives of the men and women who led Protestant Christianity’s great awakenings. A prologue traces the story back to the eighteenth-century Moravian prayer movement at Herrnhut — a hundred-year round-the-clock prayer vigil that historians connect to the First Great Awakening — before the book moves chapter by chapter through John and Charles Wesley’s founding of Methodism, George Whitefield’s transatlantic preaching tours, Jonathan Edwards’s Northampton revival, Francis Asbury’s circuit-riding ministry across the early United States, the frontier camp meetings of the early 1800s, Peter Cartwright’s rough-and-ready frontier evangelism, Charles Finney’s Second Great Awakening campaigns, Dwight L. Moody’s transatlantic crusades, William and Catherine Booth’s founding of The Salvation Army, and Billy Graham’s twentieth-century stadium crusades. Liardon, a church historian, writes to honor these figures’ faith while also, in the words of one endorsement, remaining “true to history to include their failures and shortcomings” as lessons for the church today. The book carries a foreword by Colin Dye (Senior Minister, Kensington Temple, London) and endorsements from ministry leaders including Bill Johnson, Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne and Jack Taylor.
- 10 Chapters
- 1 Foreword
- 1 Prologue
- 444 pages
- 2008 Published
- English
Source: Roberts Liardon, God’s Generals: The Revivalists (Sarasota, FL: Roberts Liardon Ministries; New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2008). ISBN 978-1-60374-025-8. © 2008 by Roberts Liardon. All rights reserved. This work is still in copyright and is not reproduced here in full — this page is a UECF.NET library entry with bibliographic information, an original synopsis and a chapter list. The complete book is available from Whitaker House, Roberts Liardon Ministries, and booksellers.
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About the Author
Roberts Liardon is an American church historian, author and minister, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma — the first male child born at Oral Roberts University, in whose founder’s honor he was named. He began public ministry at thirteen and published his first book at seventeen, and has since written more than four dozen Christian books, including the best-selling God’s Generals series on the lives of historic Christian revivalists. Read the full author profile →
Table of Contents
The book’s front matter and ten chapters, with a one-line historical note on each. Chapters are not reproduced online (see the copyright notice above); read the full text in a print or library copy, or from the publisher.
- Endorsements & Foreword — a foreword by Colin Dye (Kensington Temple, London) and endorsements from ministry leaders including Bill Johnson, Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne and Jack Taylor.
- Prologue: One Hundred Years of Intercession — Count Zinzendorf and the Moravian community at Herrnhut, whose century-long prayer vigil (begun 1727) historians connect to the First Great Awakening.
- Introduction — Liardon’s framing of revival and the revivalists profiled in the book.
- 1John & Charles Wesley — “The Head and Heart of Revival” — the brothers whose field preaching, hymn writing and small-group “societies” founded the Methodist movement in eighteenth-century England.
- 2George Whitefield — “The Divine Dramatist” — the Anglican open-air preacher whose transatlantic tours helped ignite the First Great Awakening in Britain and colonial America.
- 3Jonathan Edwards — “God’s Intellectual” — the Northampton, Massachusetts pastor-theologian of the First Great Awakening (see UECF.NET’s Jonathan Edwards page for more).
- 4Francis Asbury — “The Prophet of the Long Road” — the pioneer Methodist bishop who spent decades on horseback circuit routes, planting Methodism across the young United States.
- 5The First Camp Meetings — “America’s Pentecost” — the frontier camp-meeting revivals of the early 1800s, epitomized by the 1801 Cane Ridge, Kentucky gathering, that launched the Second Great Awakening.
- 6Peter Cartwright — “The Pistol-toting Evangelist” — the blunt, colorful Methodist circuit rider famed for his frontier preaching and legendary encounters with hecklers.
- 7Charles Finney — “The Father of Modern Revivalism” — the lawyer-turned-evangelist whose Rochester revivals and “new measures” defined the Second Great Awakening (see UECF.NET’s public-domain Life of Charles G. Finney).
- 8Dwight L. Moody — “The Greatest Layman” — the shoe-salesman-turned-evangelist who preached to millions across Britain and America and founded the Moody Bible Institute.
- 9William & Catherine Booth — “Through Blood and Fire” — the founders of The Salvation Army, who joined evangelism with practical relief work among the urban poor of Victorian England.
- 10Billy Graham — “Evangelist to the World” — the twentieth-century evangelist whose Crusades reached millions worldwide through radio, television and stadium events.
- Notes & Bibliography — source notes and a bibliography of works consulted.
- About the Author — a biographical note on Roberts Liardon.