Evangelical Revival in Britain

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Christian movement religious revival movement

The Evangelical Revival in Britain was an 18th-century religious movement, led by figures such as John Wesley and George Whitefield, that revitalized Protestant Christianity through emphases on personal conversion, heartfelt piety, and widespread preaching, and gave rise to Methodism and other evangelical traditions.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Evangelical Revival	4
Evangelical Revival in Britain canonical	2
Methodist Revival	1
Methodist revival	1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian movement ⓘ religious revival movement ⓘ
country	Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
endTime	early 19th century ⓘ
geographicScope	England NERFINISHED ⓘ Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEffect	abolitionist movement in Britain ⓘ development of evangelical theology ⓘ expansion of Sunday schools ⓘ expansion of dissenting Protestant denominations ⓘ growth of evangelical Anglicanism ⓘ growth of lay preaching ⓘ increased emphasis on heartfelt piety ⓘ increased emphasis on personal conversion ⓘ increased missionary activity ⓘ philanthropic societies in Britain ⓘ rise of Methodism ⓘ social reform movements in Britain ⓘ temperance movement in Britain ⓘ widespread itinerant preaching ⓘ
hasPart	Methodist Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	British abolition of slavery in the British Empire ⓘ British abolition of the slave trade ⓘ British social reform in the 19th century ⓘ Clapham Sect NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Great Awakening NERFINISHED ⓘ missionary societies of the 18th and 19th centuries ⓘ modern evangelicalism ⓘ religious culture of Victorian Britain ⓘ
influencedBy	Moravian Church NERFINISHED ⓘ Pietism NERFINISHED ⓘ Puritanism ⓘ Reformation theology ⓘ
keyPerson	Charles Wesley NERFINISHED ⓘ George Whitefield NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Venn NERFINISHED ⓘ Howell Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ John Fletcher of Madeley NERFINISHED ⓘ John Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wesley NERFINISHED ⓘ Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon NERFINISHED ⓘ William Wilberforce NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	Calvinistic Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ Evangelical Anglicanism ⓘ Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ Welsh Methodist Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ
practice	class meetings ⓘ field preaching ⓘ itinerant preaching ⓘ small group meetings ⓘ society meetings ⓘ
religion	Protestant Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	1730s ⓘ
theologicalFocus	assurance of salvation ⓘ atonement of Christ ⓘ authority of the Bible ⓘ holiness of life ⓘ new birth ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

General Rules of the Methodist Church → historicalPeriod → Evangelical Revival in Britain ⓘ

Calvinist Methodism → partOf → Evangelical Revival in Britain ⓘ

this entity surface form: Evangelical Revival

Calvinist Methodism → influencedBy → Evangelical Revival in Britain ⓘ

this entity surface form: Methodist revival

Henry Venn → movement → Evangelical Revival in Britain ⓘ

this entity surface form: Evangelical Revival

Nonconformism in England → influencedBy → Evangelical Revival in Britain ⓘ

Olney Hymns → associatedWithMovement → Evangelical Revival in Britain ⓘ

this entity surface form: Evangelical Revival

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling → associatedMovement → Evangelical Revival in Britain ⓘ

this entity surface form: Evangelical Revival

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling → associatedMovement → Evangelical Revival in Britain ⓘ

this entity surface form: Methodist Revival