Gilbert Tennent
Gilbert Tennent (5 February 1703 – 23 July 1764) was a
Presbyterian revivalist minister in
Colonial America. Born into a
Scotch-Irish family in
County Armagh,
Ireland, he migrated to America with his parents, studied
theology, and along with
Jonathan Edwards and
George Whitefield, became one of the leaders of the evangelical revival known as the
First Great Awakening. His most famous sermon, ''On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry'', also known as the "Nottingham Sermon," compared "Old Side" ministers to the biblical
Pharisees of the
Gospels, triggering a schism in the Presbyterian Church which lasted for 17 years. A prolific writer, Tennent would later work towards reunification of the two synods involved.
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