Pentecostal Outpourings: Revival and the Reformed Tradition

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When Jesus ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, He poured out His Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This significant historical and redemptive event was not the last time Christ poured out His Spirit in redemptive history. Mindful of these subsequent acts, Pentecostal Outpourings presents historical research on revivals in the Reformed tradition during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Investigating the British Isles, it observes the outpourings experienced among Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, Irish Dissenters, Calvinistic English Baptists, and Scottish Presbyterians. It then moves on to evaluate the revival instincts among Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and the Dutch Reformed in America. May the knowledge of these outpourings of the Holy Spirit help us seek God earnestly to revive His Church once again. Table of Contents: Preface (Steve Lawson) Introduction I. Revival in the British Isles 1. The Power of Heaven in the Word of Life: Welsh Calvinistic Methodism and Revival - Eifon Evans 2. Melting the Ice of a Long Winter: Revival and Irish Dissent - Ian Hugh Clary 3. The Lord Is Doing Great Things and Answering Prayer Everywhere: The Revival of the Calvinistic Baptists in the Long Eighteenth Century - Michael A. G. Haykin 4. Revival: A Scottish Presbyterian Perspective - Iain Campbell II. Revival in America 5. Edwards's Revival Instinctive and Apologetic in American Presbyterianism: Planted, Grown, and Faded -Robert Davis Smart 6. The Glorious Work of God : Revival among Congregationalists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Peter Beck 7. Baptist Revivals in America in the Eighteenth Century - Tom Nettles 8. Dutch Reformed Church in America (the 18th century) - Joel Beeke Pentecostal Outpourings Pentecostal Outpourings Contents Foreword Introduction "The Power of Heaven in the Word of Life": Welsh Calvinistic Methodism and Revival An Emerging Calvinistic Methodist Witness Consolidation and Decline in the Nineteenth Century Calvinism and Revival Relevance for Today "Melting the Ice of a Long Winter": Revival and Irish Dissent "The Bright and Hot Sun-Blink of the Gospel": "Surely Irish Zion Demands Our Prayers": "The Year of Grace": The Revival of '59 "Revival and Revivalism": Concluding Thoughts about Irish Revival Declension among the Calvinistic Baptists Baptist Rejection of the Evangelical Revival Examples of Spiritual Vitality from the Western Association Andrew Fuller and the Revival of the English Baptists John Sutcliff and Praying for Revival A Coda Revival: A Scottish Presbyterian Perspective The Presbyterian Tradition in Scotland Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Revivals The Evangelical Revival and the Disruption The Isle of Lewis The Twentieth Century Three Perspectives Lessons Edwards's Revival Instinct and Apologetic in American Presbyterianism: Planted, Grown, and Faded The Presbyterian Jonathan Edwards and His Revival Apologetic American Presbyterianism Initially Embraces Edwards's Theology of Revival Edwards's Revival Instinct and Apologetic in Colleges Edwards's Revival Apologetic in the Upper South's "West": Edwards's Revival Instinct and Apologetic Begin to Fade in the City The Fading Out of Edwards's Revival Instinct and Apologetic "The Glorious Work of God": Revival among Congregationalists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Theologian of Revival: Jonathan Edwards The Preacher of Revival: Asahel Nettleton Conclusion Baptist Revivals in America in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Baptists and the First Great Awakening Baptists and the Second Great Awakening Baptists in the Prayer Revival Revival in the Civil War Controversy over Revival Method Revival and the Dutch Reformed Church in Eighteenth-Century America Roots of Revival: The Dutch Further Reformation Frelinghuysen: Regeneration and Repentance Frelinghuysen: Controversy and Revival Laidlie and Livingston: Two Scots in Dutch New York Eilardus Westerlo: The Revived Dutch Minister of Albany Conclusion: Lessons for the Modern Church A Concluding Word A Call to Seek God for Revival Today Editors and Contributors