1792-1875Connecticut native Charles Grandison Finney taught school briefly, studied law privately and joined a law practice in the upstate New York community of Adams in Jefferson County. He underwent ...

Many debates have been had over the origins of revival. Prominent Second Great Awakening revivalist Charles Finney contended ...

Charles Grandison Finney was the second president of Oberlin College and a prominent leader in the Second Great Awakening, a burst of evangelical fervor that swept across much of the United States in ...