revivalistic

Like many short-lived, enthusiastic or revivalistic movements, this one died out by early 1901.

One was the pietistic or revivalistic emphasis on an individual relationship with Christ in which the church and sacraments had no essential role.

Soon the English-speakers wanted a revivalistic preacher and called on Tennent.

Staunch defenders of Biblical inerrancy, they stress modesty in dress and revivalistic worship practices.

The Irish Catholics disliked Bryan's revivalistic rhetoric and worried about prohibition as well.

He opposed the revivalistic measures taken by fellow Presbyterian pastors such Gilbert Tennent.

John preached in the revivalistic style of Calvinism that his father was known for as part of the First Great Awakening.

Slave women exercised wide-ranging spiritual leadership among Africans in America in healing and medicine, church discipline, and revivalistic enthusiasm.

This culminated in the revivalistic preaching of Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, and their successors.

Inside, the church is ornamented with frescoes on the walls and a heavily decorated ceiling, and the altars are built in a revivalistic form of the Gothic style.

Most importantly, it shows the great difference that exists between the superficial and shallow concepts of revivalistic sensationalism and the covenanted Reformation attainments of previous centuries.

According to Jacob Neusner, Native American Christianity is often "fundamentalist in theology, conservative in their practice, and often revivalistic and evangelical."

They also accorded well with and helped produce the emerging amalgam of American populist, restorationist, biblicistic, revivalistic activism that Sutton terms "Arminianized Calvinism."

As to whether death and humour have anything to do with each other, Frank McCourt puts them into a picture that, with slight alteration, is like my own revivalistic tradition.

Frelinghuysen had adapted the theological developments of the Puritan divines to preach a style of Reformed pietism, a revivalistic style of Calvinism.

The crowd, eager with hours of waiting, but soothed by the parasympathetics, fell easy prey to the revivalistic preachers, whose mightily amplified voices thundered one after another through the Square.

Michael Graves's unbuilt project, Fargo-Moorhead Cultural Center, also is a revivalistic example of Ledoux's Inspector's House of Chaux.

Pentecostal: Of, relating to, or constituting any of various Christian religious bodies that employ revivalistic methods, typically including the generating of great emotionalism and that are usually fundamentalist in outlook.

His only formal education had been in country schools; and of all books save the Bible, revivalistic hymnals, a concordance handy for finding sermon-texts, and a manual of poultry-keeping, he was soundly ignorant.

Generally speaking, the theological outlook of most ministers was largely accepting of liberal trends in Protestant doctrine and higher biblical criticism, although some pockets of conservative revivalistic pietism and confessionalist Calvinism could be found.

Then following a schism in the Apostolic Church about 1940, Bablola went with a new independent church, Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), where he continued his healing and revivalistic activities until his death.

Influenced by American revivalistic teachings, Livingstone's reading of missionary Karl Gützlaff's Appeal to the Churches of Britain and America on behalf of China enabled him to persuade his father that medical study could advance religious ends.

Whether prompted by shock, survivor's guilt or the memory of thoughts that he says almost drove him to suicide, Hazare vowed to remain a bachelor and devote his life to humanity, inspired by a revivalistic swami's book that he had bought at a railway kiosk.

However, for the most part, the CPC's constituency and theology resembles that of the United Methodist Church, appealing mainly to long-established families with revivalistic religious tastes and generally conservative cultural dispositions, derived chiefly from the agricultural orientation of most of its historic territory, the Upper South.