{"id":1627,"date":"2018-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/ministries\/universities\/america\/why_we_need_a_revival_theology\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:31:42","slug":"why_we_need_a_revival_theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/the-magazine\/why_we_need_a_revival_theology\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need a Revival Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a wide range of views within the church on revival. Here is a helpful perspective from the church historian, Robert W. Caldwell. Though he doesn\u2019t address the believer\u2019s role in praying that God would bring about revival, he does close on a hopeful note, that perhaps God will one day usher in the next Great Awakening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a wide range of views within the church on revival. Here is a helpful perspective from the church historian, Robert W. Caldwell. Though he doesn\u2019t address the believer&#8217;s role in praying that God would bring about revival, he does close on a hopeful note, that perhaps God will one day usher in the next Great Awakening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,30],"university":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-layout_color_line_orange","tag-revival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}