Pinson is known for his ardent Reformed Arminian theological stance-the Arminianism of Jacobus Arminius himself-that he argues is to be distinguished from others construals of Arminianism, such as Wesleyan-Holiness Arminianism and Finney-typed revivalistic thinking which many unfortunately caricature as mainstream Arminianism.
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However, for the most part, the CPC's constituency and theology resembles that of the United Methodist Church, appealing mainly to long-established families with revivalistic religious tastes and generally conservative cultural dispositions, derived chiefly from the agricultural orientation of most of its historic territory, the Upper South.
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As many charismatic churches find their heart in the revivalistic messages of Finney and the early holiness movement, Reformed Charismatics find their historical theology more grounded in the lives and writings of the Puritians, like Jonathan Edwards & John Owen, and the later writings of C . H . Spurgeon.
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He soon became prominent; first by his contributions to its organ the " Messenger "; then by " The Anxious Bench A Tract for the Times " ( 1843 ), attacking the vicious excesses of revivalistic methods; and by his defence of the inauguration address, " The Principle of Protestantism ", delivered by his colleague Philip Schaff, which aroused a storm of protest by its suggestion that Pauline Protestantism was not the last word in the development of the church but that a Johannine Christianity was to be its out-growth, and by its recognition of Petrine Romanism as a stage in ecclesiastical development.
