Tennent, William

Tennent, William,

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 AwakeningGreat Awakening,
series of religious revivals that swept over the American colonies about the middle of the 18th cent. It resulted in doctrinal changes and influenced social and political thought. In New England it was started (1734) by the rousing preaching of Jonathan Edwards.
..... Click the link for more information. . 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).

单词	tennent, william
释义	Tennent, William Tennent, William, 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 AwakeningGreat Awakening, series of religious revivals that swept over the American colonies about the middle of the 18th cent. It resulted in doctrinal changes and influenced social and political thought. In New England it was started (1734) by the rousing preaching of Jonathan Edwards. ..... Click the link for more information. . 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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