Charles Grandison Finney on Continuation of spiritual gifts

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Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Nothing found on whether the miraculous gifts continue. The passage nearest to it argues that a revival is not a miracle but the result of "the right use of the constituted means," and that the apostles used miracles to gain attention for their message and establish its authority: "the miracle was not the revival." That treats apostolic miracles as authenticating the message. It does not say whether they ceased. Not found in what was read.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Law student turned revivalist of the Second Great Awakening, licensed and ordained by a Presbyterian presbytery in 1824, later professor of theology and president at Oberlin College. His Lectures on Revivals of Religion argued that a revival is the right use of means and not a miracle. His Systematic Theology built a doctrine of salvation on moral government and on the sinner's natural ability, and denied original sin as a sinful nature, imputed righteousness, and that the atonement paid what sinners owed. This entry rests on that Systematic Theology (1878 edition), the Revival Lectures, one chapter of the Memoirs, three Oberlin Evangelist pieces and one letter.