My cautious colleagues are dreadfully afraid of anything which they call revivalistic, and, indeed, of anything which is unconventional. From Wordnik.com. [The Upton Letters] Reference
The present Shantung, where it started, is still susceptible to this sort of ecstatic, revivalistic religious agitation. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference
The result was that the return to Rome, even in the case of the Union of Brzesć (Brest-Litovsk) in 1596 with most of the Orthodox, was accomplished by persuasion, through revivalistic preaching, pilgrimages to popular shrines, and above all by promoting Marian devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Poland's Past] Reference
Synod did not take a decided stand against revivalistic enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod] Reference
When we take up the phenomena of revivalistic conversion, we shall learn something more about all this. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
Dr.J. H.C. Helmuth was the first to report on a revivalistic awakening in his congregation at Lancaster, in 1773. From Wordnik.com. [American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod] Reference
I do not think that the so-called "revivalistic taboos" are necessarily just for revivalists-at least not all of them. From Wordnik.com. [SharperIron] Reference
First, fundamentalists and other evangelicals have often differed over their observance of what I have called "revivalistic taboos.". From Wordnik.com. [SharperIron] Reference
The mystery as to how this had been effected was the more elusive when she considered the absence of all methods which might have been deemed revivalistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside of the Cup — Complete] Reference
Todd affirmed that he desired to be apostolically aligned with Revival Alliance, and then received their apostolic commissioning as a revivalistic evangelist. From Wordnik.com. [DiscernIt] Reference
They also accorded well with and helped produce the emerging amalgam of American populist, restorationist, biblicistic, revivalistic activism that Sutton terms "Arminianized Calvinism.". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"My dear governor, you are the one great man in State politics, but that unimportant fact would not have landed you into your present seat had not the little revivalistic episode befuddled the brains of the convention.". From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the People] Reference
He was the first man to introduce American revivalistic methods into England and Scotland; but his labors were never as wide, as influential, and generally acceptable there as the subsequent labors of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a Long Life]
At the suggestion of Peter Wagner, three of the members of the Revival Alliance team went to Lakeland because the Alliance as a whole wanted to express support for the Lakeland Outpouring and to commission Todd as a revivalistic evangelist. From Wordnik.com. [DiscernIt] Reference
But the deliverance must come in as strong a form as the complaint, if it is to take effect; and that seems a reason why the coarser religions, revivalistic, orgiastic, with blood and miracles and supernatural operations, may possibly never be displaced. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
In spontaneous religious awakening, apart from revivalistic examples, and in the ordinary storm and stress and moulting-time of adolescence, we also may meet with mystical experiences, astonishing the subjects by their suddenness, just as in revivalistic conversion. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
But he focuses on that particular, identifiable strain of evangelical Christianity that is persistently revivalistic, emphasizes dispensationalist premillennialism and biblical inerrancy, militantly opposes theological modernism and cultural secularity and feels a strong sense of "trusteeship" for American culture. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Was it revivalistic showmanship?. From Wordnik.com. [Lewis's Profane Preacher] Reference
He had been reading some revivalistic literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
"a revivalistic performance directed by. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
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