His approach tended to be emotional and directed toward individual conversion. (religion-online.org)
By focusing on individual conversions apart from traditional church authorities that had, even for Protestants, provided the context for the communication of biblical truth, the revivals encouraged individuals to appropriate Scripture for their own purposes. (firstthings.com)
The defect in this confidence in individual conversion is that it obscures the dual and social character of human selves and the individual and social character of their virtues and vices. (religion-online.org)