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Feb 05, 1703 County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Died on 23 Jul 1764 (aged 61)
American minister
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About Gilbert Tennent
- Gilbert Tennent (5 February 1703 – 23 July 1764) was a pietistic Protestant evangelist in colonial America.
- Born in a Presbyterian Scots-Irish family in County Armagh, Ireland, he migrated to America as a teenager, trained for pastoral ministry, and became one of the leaders of the Great Awakening of religious feeling in Colonial America, along with Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.
- His most famous sermon, "On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry," compared contemporary anti-revivalistic ministers to the biblical Pharisees described of the Gospels, resulting in a division of the colonial Presbyterian Church which lasted 17 years.
- While engaging divisively via pamphlets early in this period, Tennent would later work "feverishly" for reunion of the various synods involved.
