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William Tennent

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

William Tennent 1673–1745, American Presbyterian clergyman and educator, b. Ireland, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1695. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1706. He emigrated to America c.1718; in 1726 he was called to a pastorate in Neshaminy, Pa., where he stayed the remainder of his life. Here, in a log cabin, Tennent established a school that became famous as the Log College. He filled his pupils with evangelical zeal, and a number became revivalist preachers in the Great Awakening . The educational influence of the Log College was of importance since many of its graduates founded schools along the frontier. Princeton is regarded as a successor to the Log College.

Bibliography: See T. Murphy, The Presbytery of the Log College (1889); A. Alexander, The Log College (1968).

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Great Awakening, the

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Great Awakening, the. A widespread religious revival in the USA. Beginning among the Dutch Reformed Churches c.1726, it spread to the Presbyterians and Congregationalists and reached its zenith in New England in the 1740s. It was closely associated with the preaching of J. Edwards and G. Whitefield. A similar revival in the late 18th and early 19th cents. is known as the ‘Second Great Awakening’ and one in the period c.1875–1914 as the ‘Third Great Awakening’.

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Tennant, William

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Tennant, William (1784–1848), author of a poem in six cantos, Anster Fair (1812), a mockheroic description of the humours of the fair (in James V's reign) and of the courting, with fairy interposition, of Maggie Lauder by Rob the Ranter.

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Awakening, The Great

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Awakening, The Great, see Great Awakening.

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