All across the USA and all around the world, many believers are praying and seeking for “revival” or “spiritual awakening.”  But what is “revival”?  How and why does it come?  How and why does it often seem not to come?  Can revival be “prayed down”?  Or do we simply have to wait for it?  What benefits come to the church in the wake of a revival?  What challenges?  Is revival always a good thing for the church and/or for society?  And what about so-called counterfeit revivals?  How ought one to discern them and to respond to them?

Lecture titles:

• American Awakenings: Spiritual Renewal from the 1700s Until Today
• ’Faith Comes From Hearing’: Biblical Truth as the Basis for Revival
• ’Seek and You Will Find’: Prayer As the Preparation for Revival (two sessions)

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Dr. Michael McClymond is Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; he is also Senior Scholar, Overseas Ministries Service Center, New Haven, CT. He was educated at Yale University and the University of Chicago and is the author of a number of books, including Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford, 1998), Familiar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth (Eerdmans, 2004) and The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford, 2012), with Gerald McDermott. He also served as the sole editor of the 700,000-word Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, 2 vols. (2007).  This reference work is the most extensive academic publication to date on Christian revivals. His recent research has focused on the divine healing practices of Pentecostal Churches in Mozambique, Brazil and North America. Dr. McClymond has served as a coordinator for the Global Day of Prayer and is on the board of Habitat for Humanity and an addiction recovery ministry in St. Louis. He is also a guitarist, singer and songwriter in The Pneumatics--a blues and rock trio that has opened for Chuck Berry.