Revivalism (Noun)
Meaning
An attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The revivalist movement was a period of renewed emphasis on evangelism and conversion that aimed to restore the Church's early vigor.
- His advocacy of spiritual renewal led some critics to accuse him of revivalism, though he rejected this label as misleading.
- She led the drive to rediscover a strong biblical heritage as the source of vitality and thus injected fresh blood into an aged traditional structure tainted with rationalism through revivialism.
- Several mainline churches reacted warily to these reform impulses out of concern they signified incursions of Christian revivalsism rather than as reforms working entirely from within an original stream.
- Among charismatic fellowships these denominations retained powerful identities via persistent attachments and emphasis that sprang mainly out of evasive lines characteristic from outright mainstream fundamental revivialism