Life and setting
Dwight L. Moody rose from a business background to become a major urban evangelist in the United States and Britain, developing revival campaigns, schools and lay ministry networks.
Nineteenth Century • Evangelical
D. L. Moody
1837 – 1899 • Evangelist and organizer
Why this person matters
He helped shape late nineteenth-century evangelical revivalism, Bible institutes and mass evangelistic methods.
What should not be sanitized
Later institutions associated with Moody developed beyond his own lifetime and should not automatically be read back into all of his views.