Charles Grandison Finney: Revivalist (4)

Introduction Charles Finney's work can be criticized for many reasons. He was thoroughly Pelagian in his theology, not because he was ignorant of the Reformed faith, but because, although he had been taught it as a youth and young man, he had deliberately abandoned it. He was a sort of self-appointed evangelist and an itinerant preacher who pretty much "did his own thing," without being responsible or accountable to anyone but himself. He was also and preeminently a revivalist, and his...