revivalist


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a preacher of the Christian gospel

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In his book "The Furious Sound of Glory--Unleashing Heaven on Earth" Jeff Jansen weaves Biblical examples from the Old and New Testaments with contemporary life stories and testimonies of miraculous healing, deliverance from demonic strongholds, and God's power at work in the lives of Jesus, the Apostles, and a present day generation of "radical revivalists empowered to minister miracles through the power of God's Spirit.
The second school of cultural anti-revivalism rejects the revivalist solution, arguing that African traditional values are too obsolete to meet the demands of a contemporary scientific world, or "the new world order" (Oke, 2006:337).
Its first leaders embodied Sunni revivalist inclinations and were wary of cultural and political influences from the West.
However, when it comes to stories that are told to him by Taino revivalists, his consistent reaction is to accept them at face value with little or no reservation.
Among others featured are Gothic revivalist Augustus Pugin, who helped redesign Parliament after it was destroyed by fire in 1834, wartime secret agent Odette Hallowes and opera star Kathleen Ferrier.
They paddled along the shorelines to visit remote villages and hidden fishing ponds." Today, stand-up paddling has emerged as a revivalist sport.
ON Tuesday, the Australian blues/hokum revivalist CW Stoneking returns to Tyneside and he has the four-piece Primitive Horn Orchestra with him.
Bruce Springsteen responded by making the sombre Darkness On The Edge Of Town, leaving a double album's worth of rock revivalist songs on the cutting room floor.
Culminating in the Second Great Awakening of the early 1800s, a sequence of revivalist movements tried to use pulpits, ballots and government to create the conditions for Christ's return.
Both embracing and rejecting revivalist impulses, Baptist responses to revivalism inevitably refined, and at times reshaped, the Baptist ethos.
This author threw me into the time warp of my own childhood experiences at Catholic Mass, although no priest ever proved as entertaining as Jones's revivalist minister.
Old Lights viciously attacked their revivalist opponents, while New Lights split into hostile camps to debate the limits of revivalism itself.
Our enemies include all of those that support, directly or indirectly, the global Muslim revivalist movement.
OLD-TIME revivalist hymns help recreate the era of 1950s small town America in Inherit the Wind.