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In the introduction to Rethinking Church, State and Modernity, David Lyon states that "secularization understood as religious decline, deflects attention from ways that religious impulse is being relocated and religious activities restructured." 1 Indeed, Ramsay Cook and David Marshall, 2 by focusing on the decline of theological doctrines, attenuate the fact that turn-of-thecentury Christians experienced differently their faith. Lyon's comment obliquely endorses Richard Allen's 1971 conclusion. 3 Studying the social gospel, a movement led by Protestant church leaders who responded to the challenges that Darwinism and the new philosophy of higher criticism posed to religious beliefs, Allen points out that many religious leaders decided to direct their attention away from theological issues to social questions. He contends that Christianity did not lose its appeal during this period of intense philosophical challenge; on the contrary, it became more widespread. 4 By shifting the central focus from religious elites, and by giving voice to prosaic preachers and to how their message was received, one realizes that churches and denominations deepened their public presence rather than lost their appeal. If advertisement speaks the language of popularity, that is, pastors, priests or pope are often portrayed endorsing a variety of products, that is in itself revealing. But that is the object of another paper. Reverends J.B. Silcox and Hugh Pedley might not be familiar names to our contemporary ears, but to turn-of-the-century Canadians, they were celebrities. Their pastorates are real testimonies of church relevance. Not only did the two reverends attract large crowds, but their influence is also confirmed by the
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Tennent was a revivalist in the Middle Atlantic and New England colonies. This project examines the ministry methods that Tennent is most known for, that of "preaching the terrors" and "searching preaching", both used to provoke examination of one's spiritual state. Tennent's morphology of conversion is examined. "The Tennent-Rickards Scale of Conversion" is proposed and compared to "The Engel Scale"