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The First Evangelical Wave in Africa
AD 1700–1810
African American Pastor Preaching at a
Great Awakening Meeting (B).
AD 1700
AD 1710
AD 1720
A
Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf (A).
A AD 1727. The Moravian
Covenant for Christian Living is
signed in Germany. Count Ludwig
von Zinzendorf and the Moravian
church renew Pietism, which
emphasizes the necessity of a new
birth (known as being born again),
personal Bible study, prayer, and
missions. Moravian missionaries
span the globe within a generation.
The Moravians have a profound
impact on renewing Protestant
missions and the beginning of
evangelism, revival, and awakening
in Africa.
B
AD 1730
B AD 1730–1770. The Great
Awakening in colonial America,
Evangelical Awakening in Great
Britain, and Pietist movement
in Europe combine to create a
religious revolution in the West.
Protestant faith revives, and
missionary zeal increases. Many
enslaved Africans in the American
South convert to Christianity in
the Great Awakening. Later, freed
slaves settle in Sierra Leone and
Liberia and become some of the
earliest missionaries in West Africa.
AD 1740
AD 1750
C
AD 1760
AD 1770
AD 1780
D E
AD 1790
F
G H
AD 1800
I
AD 1810
British Merchant Ship, ad 1750.
J
C AD 1758. Jonathan Edwards
dies. The essays and sermons of
this New England pastortheologian promote the Great
Awakening and link the purpose
of revival with global evangelical
mission. Edwards envisions a day
when some of the greatest theologians of the worldwide church
come from Africa.