Réveil
Réveil ( French : "Awakening") is the name of a revival movement that emerged in 1814 within the Reformed Church in western Switzerland and France .
The nickname of their followers was also mômiers (mucker). The movement was initially under the influence of Juliane von Krüdener and later Methodism . She accused the Reformed state church of apostasy from true Christianity , gathered in conventicles and attached importance to a strictly religious way of life.
Under the influence of the Scots Robert Haldane (1764-1812) there was a revival movement in Geneva in 1815. From 1817 various Christian communities emerged there. The Geneva Réveil was the starting point for the revival in French Protestantism.
In 1825 the revival was carried into the Waldensian valleys by the Geneva preacher Félix Neff (1798–1829) .
The Evangelical Society in Geneva emerged from the Réveil in 1831 and established its own preachers' school in 1832. In 1848 the various dissident congregations united to form an evangelical free church ( Église libre ), which has since existed alongside the state church ( Église nationale ). During these years, a Reformed Free Church also emerged in Vaud , whose spiritual father was Alexandre Vinet .
Among the leading figures of the Réveil were Henri-Louis Empaytaz , César Malan , Louis Gaussen , Ami Bost , Antoine Jean-Louis Galland and Adolphe Monod .
The religious thinking of the writer Urbain Olivier (1810–1888) was shaped by this revival movement.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Lindemann : For piety in freedom. The history of the Evangelical Alliance in the Age of Liberalism (1846-1879). Lit, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8258-8920-3 , pp. 29-30.
- ^ Klaus Fitschen: Protestant minority churches in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-374-02499-5 , p. 58.
- ^ Françoise Châtelain: Olivier, Urbain. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .