John Winebrenner
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John Winebrenner (March 25, 1797 in Glade Valley, Maryland - September 12, 1860 in Harrisburg), founder of the Church of God.
He studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was ordained in the German Reformed Church in 1820 and became a pastor at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where his revival preaching and his Revival Hymn-Book (1825) brought about a break between his followers and the Reformed Church.
His Christian testimony can be found in the book The Testimony of a Hundred Witnesses (1858) edited by John Frederick Weishampel. In 1830 he founded the Church of God (whose members are commonly called "Winebrennerians"); he was speaker of its conference and edited its publication, The Church Advocate, until his death.
[edit] Books
- Brief Views of the Church of God (1840)
- A Treatise on Regeneration (1844)
- Doctrinal and Practical Sermons (1860)
- The History of all the Religious Denominations in the United States (1844) with IB Rupp.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
