If you start this book and are immediately taken aback by the author's apparent assumption that you know who Charles Grandison Finney was and are thoroughly conversant with the Great Revival of 1740-45, have patience. All will be revealed, but in its own good time and according to its own logic. It's actually very refreshing to read an author who writes as if the reader were fully as intelligent and cultured as he is, even though, in the case of the present reviewer, he would likely become disillusioned very quickly. ( )