Gilbert Tennent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gilbert Tennent

American minister

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1703

Place of Birth: County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1764

Profession: pastor, theologian

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.