Christian History Magazine Revivals Bundle - Set of 3
This set includes three Christian History magazines on Revival.
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Description
#149 - Revival: The first thousand years
This issue is the first in a three-part series that will look at the big picture of renewal in church history, focusing on four marks of revival:
• Popular (widespread)
• Transformative (asking for conversion)
• Institutionally unsatisfied (institution-questioning, institution-renewing)
• Devotional (emotionally charged)
But this issue doesn’t start where you might expect. Instead, it drops us into the High Middle Ages.
From very early on, Christians sought renewal. They did so by looking back to early church models and forward to a church and society transformed by a reinvigorated faith and a reinvigorated people. When we remove our unspoken assumption that revivals could only happen after the Reformation, and look at our four marks as criteria for calling renewal movements before the year 1500 revivals, we discover many movements fit the bill. Join us as we briefly look at Christianity’s first 1000 years and then take a more in-depth look at revival in the high and late Middle Ages, and conclude with the Reformation, the culmination of centuries of demands for reform.
#151 - Awakenings: Second in our series on Revival
Join CH as we unfold historical revivals from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, a second issue in our series on revival. Revival, as defined in CH’s first issue in this series (#149), is 1) popular– a widespread occurrence; 2.) transformative– resulting in conversion and recommitment to Christ; 3.) institutionally unsatisfied and critical– movements that question, reform, and renew institutions; and 4.) devotional– emotionally charged.
This issue details movements that certainly fit these criteria, focusing extensively on the First and Second Great Awakenings. Both awakenings swept through America and transformed her church. We take a deep dive into the revival preachers and gatherings of that specific time, highlighting the lives and ministries of influential revivalists: George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, and later, Charles Finney, Barton W. Stone, and A.B. Simpson, among many others. These awakenings resulted in the renewal of many people and in many ways, the conversion of a nation.
But before we jump into the heart of these awakenings, we start as CH often does: in unexpected places. From the institutionally critical English Puritans, whose reform movement made waves in the Church of England, we move to Reform Catholics of the Early Modern period, whose desire to more deeply encounter Jesus transformed the Catholic church. Around the same time, Pietism would change local communities and influence figures well beyond its beginnings within German Lutheranism. In this issue, you’ll see how God used these movements as perhaps unlikely vectors of revival.
Through stories and people you may be familiar with, to those figures less often recognized and easier to miss within the big “Awakening” picture, we invite you to follow the threads that spanned continents and faith traditions to weave a fascinating tapestry of spiritual revival.
#153 - Global Outpouring: Revival movements of the modern era
The final issue in our three-part series on revivals, Christian History #153 dives into global revivals of the modern period, particularly the twentieth century that has been called the “Century of the Holy Spirit.” After exploring the beginnings of modern revival among the Moravians and in movements of the early 1800s, CH follows the thread of renewal into the turn of the century.
In the 1900s, an explosion of awakenings took place in every corner of the world, from Wales to Los Angeles to Pyongyang, Korea. We follow a cutting-edge evangelist in pre communist China, reports of miracles in Indonesia, and the East African church coming to grips with its colonial past. We survey the development of the modern Pentecostal movement from a renovated stable on Azusa Street to faith-healing ministries, charismatic groups in mainline churches, and the burgeoning Third Wave. We consult revival experts to identify historical patterns of revival and potential problems that believers and leaders alike must prevent.
Whether you are a proponent or skeptic when it comes to revivals, this issue will shed light on the fascinating story of modern revivals and their profound influence on Christian history.