Rethinking Finney: The Two Sides of Charles Grandison Finney's Doctrine of Atonement
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ArticlePublication details: Jun 2020Description: Pages 332-343ISSN: - 0360-8808
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Charles Gradison Finney remais America's Most controversial revivalist. However, despite a range of analysis in recent decades, his doctrine of atonement is still not completely understood in its entirety. Tailoring every facet of his thinking toward the goal of revivalism, Finney drew elements from different protestant traditions in America in order to combine moral governmental and moral influence theories of atonement. It is the purpose of this article to articulate how Finney Synthesized these two models, which occupied the more dominant space in his thinking, and why his view can best be described as a governmental and influential substitution.
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