Tag: Welsh spirituality

• William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), The Voice of the Welsh Revival and the Making of a Singing Nation

  

  In my earlier essays on Daniel Rowland, the great evangelist of the Welsh Methodist Revival, and Howell Harris, the organiser and engine who turned revival into a disciplined movement, I explored two forms of power that shaped modern Wales. The first was the power of the pulpit, preaching as national event, the sermon as moral…

  Antony David Davies

  09/02/2026

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• Howell Harris (1714–1773), The Engine of the Welsh Revival and the Birth of an Evangelical Wales

  

  This article follows my recent study of Daniel Rowland (1713–1790), the great evangelist of the Welsh Methodist Revival and one of the defining architects of modern Welsh Nonconformity. If Rowland represents the revival at its most visible, the pulpit phenomenon, the national preacher, the man whose sermons drew thousands, then Howell Harris must be understood…

  Antony David Davies

  08/02/2026

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• Daniel Rowland (1713–1790), The Great Evangelist of Wales, and the Making of Modern Welsh Nonconformity

  

  There are certain names in Welsh religious history which do not merely belong to their century, they reshape the centuries that follow. Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho is one of those figures. In the eighteenth century, when Wales was still largely rural, linguistically distinct, and socially conservative, Rowland became the most powerful preacher the nation had…

  Antony David Davies

  07/02/2026

  Religion

  18th century Wales, bible, Calvinism in Wales, Cardiganshire history, Ceredigion history, christianity, Daniel Rowland, evangelical revival, faith, History, history of Christianity in Wales, Howell Harris, jesus, Llangeitho, Methodist History, religion and society, Rural Wales, social history of Wales, the Welsh pulpit, Trevecca, Wales in the eighteenth century, Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, Welsh Chapels, Welsh Communities, Welsh culture, Welsh history, Welsh hymnody, Welsh identity, Welsh language, Welsh Methodist Revival, Welsh ministers, Welsh Nonconformity, Welsh preaching, Welsh religious history, Welsh spirituality, William Williams Pantycelyn