Evangelical Revival in Britain

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Christian movement religious revival movement

The Evangelical Revival in Britain was an 18th-century religious movement, led by figures such as John Wesley and George Whitefield, that revitalized Protestant Christianity through emphases on personal conversion, heartfelt piety, and widespread preaching, and gave rise to Methodism and other evangelical traditions.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Evangelical Revival	8
Evangelical Revival in Britain canonical	4
Methodist Revival	3
Welsh Methodist revival	3
Methodist revival	2
British evangelical revival	1
Evangelical Revival era	1
Evangelical revivalism	1
Welsh Methodist Revival	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8747072 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Evangelical Revival in Britain
Context triple: [General Rules of the Methodist Church, historicalPeriod, Evangelical Revival in Britain]

A. Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a major early-19th-century American religious revival movement that spurred widespread evangelical fervor, social reform campaigns, and the rapid growth of Protestant denominations.
B. Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a worldwide Protestant Christian movement characterized by an emphasis on personal conversion, the authority of Scripture, and active evangelism.
C. Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a series of 18th-century Protestant revival movements in the American colonies that emphasized personal faith, emotional preaching, and a break from established religious authorities.
D. Church and the modern world
Church and the modern world is a theological theme, especially prominent in the Second Vatican Council, that explores how the Catholic Church understands and engages contemporary human society, culture, and challenges.
E. Baptist movement in America
The Baptist movement in America is a Christian Protestant tradition that emerged in the 17th century emphasizing believer’s baptism, congregational autonomy, and religious liberty, profoundly shaping the nation’s religious and civic life.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Evangelical Revival in Britain
Target entity description: The Evangelical Revival in Britain was an 18th-century religious movement, led by figures such as John Wesley and George Whitefield, that revitalized Protestant Christianity through emphases on personal conversion, heartfelt piety, and widespread preaching, and gave rise to Methodism and other evangelical traditions.

A. Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a major early-19th-century American religious revival movement that spurred widespread evangelical fervor, social reform campaigns, and the rapid growth of Protestant denominations.
B. Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a worldwide Protestant Christian movement characterized by an emphasis on personal conversion, the authority of Scripture, and active evangelism.
C. Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a series of 18th-century Protestant revival movements in the American colonies that emphasized personal faith, emotional preaching, and a break from established religious authorities.
D. Church and the modern world
Church and the modern world is a theological theme, especially prominent in the Second Vatican Council, that explores how the Catholic Church understands and engages contemporary human society, culture, and challenges.
E. Baptist movement in America
The Baptist movement in America is a Christian Protestant tradition that emerged in the 17th century emphasizing believer’s baptism, congregational autonomy, and religious liberty, profoundly shaping the nation’s religious and civic life.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian movement ⓘ religious revival movement ⓘ
country	Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
endTime	early 19th century ⓘ
geographicScope	England ⓘ Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ
hasEffect	abolitionist movement in Britain ⓘ development of evangelical theology ⓘ expansion of Sunday schools ⓘ expansion of dissenting Protestant denominations ⓘ growth of evangelical Anglicanism ⓘ growth of lay preaching ⓘ increased emphasis on heartfelt piety ⓘ increased emphasis on personal conversion ⓘ increased missionary activity ⓘ philanthropic societies in Britain ⓘ rise of Methodism ⓘ social reform movements in Britain ⓘ temperance movement in Britain ⓘ widespread itinerant preaching ⓘ
hasPart	Methodist Revival ⓘ linked to: Evangelical Revival in Britain
influenced	British abolition of slavery in the British Empire ⓘ British abolition of the slave trade ⓘ British social reform in the 19th century ⓘ Clapham Sect ⓘ Second Great Awakening ⓘ missionary societies of the 18th and 19th centuries ⓘ modern evangelicalism ⓘ religious culture of Victorian Britain ⓘ
influencedBy	Moravian Church ⓘ linked to: Moravian Church in America Pietism ⓘ Puritanism ⓘ Reformation theology ⓘ
keyPerson	Charles Wesley ⓘ George Whitefield ⓘ Henry Venn ⓘ Howell Harris ⓘ John Fletcher of Madeley ⓘ John Newton ⓘ John Wesley ⓘ Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon ⓘ William Wilberforce ⓘ
movement	Calvinistic Methodism ⓘ linked to: Calvinist Methodism Evangelical Anglicanism ⓘ Methodism ⓘ Welsh Methodist Revival ⓘ linked to: Evangelical Revival in Britain
practice	class meetings ⓘ field preaching ⓘ itinerant preaching ⓘ small group meetings ⓘ society meetings ⓘ
religion	Protestant Christianity ⓘ
startTime	1730s ⓘ
theologicalFocus	assurance of salvation ⓘ atonement of Christ ⓘ authority of the Bible ⓘ holiness of life ⓘ new birth ⓘ

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